Unhealthy Work
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A01=Ellen Rosskam
A01=Marnie Dobson
A01=Peter Schnall
A01=Ray Elling
Author_Ellen Rosskam
Author_Marnie Dobson
Author_Peter Schnall
Author_Ray Elling
Cabin Crew
Canadian Labor Force
cardiovascular risk factors
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Chemical Exposures
Chi Data
Chrisy Moutsatsos
Chronic Work Stressors
Dean Baker
Deborah R. Gordon
Edward Yelin
Effort Reward Imbalance Model
Ellen Rosskam
Emotional Labor
emotional labor studies
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Haiou Yang
Healthier Work Environments
Hotel Room Cleaners
Improve Work Organization
interventions for psychosocial workplace hazards
Jeffrey V. Johnson
job
Job Strain
job strain models
John Frank
June Fisher
Labor Force Participants
labor market inequality
Lilia Garcia
Lower Job Decision Latitude
Mamie Dobson
Maritza Jauregui
Masked Hypertension
Mike Casey
Multiple Job Holding
Occupational Health Research
occupational stress research
OSHA
Paul A. Landsbergis
Paul Landsbergis
Peter L. Schnall
Peter Smith
Piece Rate Payment Systems
Psychosocial Exposures
Psychosocial Stressors
Psychosocial Working Environments
Ray Antonio
Reduce Job Strain
Rising Health Care Costs
Schnall Peter L.
Stephen Lloyd Smith
strain
work organization effects
Work Related Health Outcomes
Working Age Population
Product details
- ISBN 9780895033352
- Weight: 870g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Sep 2009
- Publisher: Baywood Publishing Company Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Work, so fundamental to well-being, has its darker and more costly side. Work can adversely affect our health, well beyond the usual counts of injuries that we think of as 'occupational health'. The ways in which work is organized - its pace and intensity, degree of control over the work process, sense of justice, and employment security, among other things - can be as toxic to the health of workers as the chemicals in the air. These work characteristics can be detrimental not only to mental well-being but to physical health. Scientists refer to these features of work as 'hazards' of the 'psychosocial' work environment. One key pathway from the work environment to illness is through the mechanism of stress; thus we speak of 'stressors' in the work environment, or 'work stress'. This is in contrast to the popular psychological understandings of 'stress', which locate many of the problems with the individual rather than the environment. In this book we advance a social environmental understanding of the workplace and health. The book addresses this topic in three parts: the important changes taking place in the world of work in the context of the global economy (Part I); scientific findings on the effects of particular forms of work organization and work stressors on employees' health, 'unhealthy work' as a major public health problem, and estimates of costs to employers and society (Part II); and, case studies and various approaches to improve working conditions, prevent disease, and improve health (Part III).
Schnall, Peter; Dobson, Marnie; Rosskam, Ellen; Elling, Ray
