Health Effects of the New Labour Market
Tores Theorell, Kerstin Isaksson (Editor), Christer Hogstedt (Editor), Charli Eriksson (Editor), Töres Theorell (Editor)
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0306463008
DDC: 158.72
Edition: Hardcover; 1999-12-31
Summary:
This book is the proceedings of the First International Conference on
Health Hazards and Challenges in the New Working Life, held January
11--13, 1999, in Stockholm, Sweden. The globalisation of the
economies has enormous implications for work and labour market
structures. Demands for rapid adjustment and flexibility can be
perceived as threatening to the employees' need for security and can
cause ill health, but it is also important to try to foresee the
possible benefits that could result and the constructive adaptations
that individuals make. These changing conditions raise new issues and
research questions concerning health consequences and people's
actions and constructive adaptation. The interdisciplinary research
conference in Stockholm on Health Hazards and Challenges in the New
Working Life covered areas such as health and social consequences of
unemployment, job insecurity, labour market constraints, flexibility
in working conditions, and new forms of employment relations and
contracts. The proceedings give an overview of the latest research
results on these issues, which will be of the utmost importance to
working life in the next millennium. The book presents a selection of
contributions from highly qualified researchers in psychology,
occupational health and sociology and covers three main sections:
unemployment and downsizing, flexibilization and stress, and
opportunities and constraints in the labour market. It provides an
excellent summary and overview of earlier research, together with new
findings about adaptation and actions among the unemployed, the
effects of new and changing employment contracts upon health, and the
polarization of the labour market and its exclusion of vulnerable
groups.
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