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Health Effects of the New Labour Market

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Editors:
  1. Kerstin Isaksson

    1. National Institute for Working Life, Solna, Sweden

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  2. Christer Hogstedt

    1. National Institute for Working Life, Solna, Sweden

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  3. Charli Eriksson

    1. National Institute for Public Health, Stockholm, Sweden

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  4. Töres Theorell

    1. National Institute for Psychosocial Factors and Health, Stockholm, Sweden

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Unemployment and Downsizing

    1. Opening Address

      • Marie Jahoda
      Pages 3-4

    2. A Social Scientist for and in the Real World: An Introduction to the Address by Professor Marie Jahoda

      • David Fryer
      Pages 5-9

    3. Unemployment and Mental Health: Hazards and Challenges of Psychology in the Community

      • David Fryer
      Pages 11-23

    4. Unemployment and Health Care Utilization

      • Allen Kraut, Cam Mustard, Randy Walld, Robert Tate
      Pages 25-42

    5. Unemployment and Social Networks among Young Persons in Sweden

      • Ulla Arnell-Gustafsson
      Pages 43-59

    6. On Empowerment and Health Effects of Temporary Alternative Empolyment

      • Hugo Westerlund
      Pages 61-74

    7. Empowerment, Learning and Social Action during Unemployment

      • Lennart Levi
      Pages 75-84

    8. Repeated Downsizing: Attitudes and Well-being for Surviving Personnel in a Swedish Retail Company

      • K. Isaksson, J. Hellgren, P. Pettersson
      Pages 85-101

  3. Flexibilization and Stress

    1. Work Life and Organizational Changes and How They are Perceived by the Employees

      • Annika Härenstam, Anna Rydbeck, Kerstin Johansson, Monica Karlqvist, Per Wiklund
      Pages 105-117

    2. Enclosure in Human Services: The Panopticon of Dentistry

      • Eva Bejerot, Björn Söderfeldt
      Pages 119-127

    3. The Impact of Organizational Changes on the Psychological Contract and Attitudes Towards Work in Four Health Care Organizations

      • René Schalk, Charissa Freese
      Pages 129-143

    4. Alternative Work Arrangements

      • Magnus Sverke, Daniel G. Gallagher, Johnny Hellgren
      Pages 145-167

    5. Telework in Perspective — New Challenges to Occupational Health and Safety

      • Michael Ertel, Eberhard Pech, Peter Ullsperger
      Pages 169-181

    6. The Relationship between Precarious Employment and Patterns of Occupational Violence

      • Claire Mayhew, Michael Quinlan
      Pages 183-205

    7. New Working Time Arrangements, Health and Well-being

      • Torbjörn Åkerstedt, Göran Kecklund, Birgitta Olsson, Arne Lowden
      Pages 207-214

    8. Determinants of the Attitude to Work and Subjective Health

      • Göran Kecklund, Torbjörn Åkerstedt, John Axelsson, Arne Lowden
      Pages 215-219

    9. Emotional Exhaustion Depersonalization and Health in Two Swedish Human Service Organizations

      • Marie Söderfeldt
      Pages 231-241

  4. Opportunities and Constraints in the Labour Market

    1. The Polarization of the Labour Market and the Exclusion of Vulnerable Groups

      • Duncan Gallie
      Pages 245-266

    2. The Quality of Work: The Work-Family Interface

      • Roel L. J. Schouteten, Marco C. de Witte
      Pages 267-288
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About this book

The background for the international research conference “Health Hazards and Challenges in the New Working Life” was the emerging questions concerning the health and social effects of the rapid changes in the labour market leading to increasing long-term unemployment, temporary employment and irregular employment contracts. We knew that other countries have had this development at the labour market for a much longer time than Sweden has and it seemed a good idea to invite interested researchers and practitioners to an international seminar to share the relevant research findings and discuss future research needs. Thus, the first international, interdisciplinary research conference on “Health Hazards and Challenges in the New Working Life” was arranged in Stockholm during the last year of the 2nd millennium but was directed towards the foreseen development during the next millennium. We were very pleased that more than 200 participants came to a cold and dark country just after New Year’s Eve, and that it was a truly multidisciplinary setting. It became very obvious that it is necessary for the occupational health and safety research community to reach out to the public health research community as well as to the social and political sciences in order to understand the determinants and to perform comprehensive analyses at several levels in this new labour market situation.

Editors and Affiliations

  • National Institute for Working Life, Solna, Sweden

    Kerstin Isaksson, Christer Hogstedt

  • National Institute for Public Health, Stockholm, Sweden

    Charli Eriksson

  • National Institute for Psychosocial Factors and Health, Stockholm, Sweden

    Töres Theorell

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Health Effects of the New Labour Market

  • Editors: Kerstin Isaksson, Christer Hogstedt, Charli Eriksson, Töres Theorell

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b107761

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-46300-6Published: 31 December 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-8670-5Published: 22 March 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-47181-0Published: 11 December 2005

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 344

  • Topics: Personality and Social Psychology, Sociology, general, Health Psychology

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