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Work Stress and Health in a Globalized Economy

The Model of Effort-Reward Imbalance

  • Is the only available updated summary of 20 years of research
  • Presents comparative cross-country research using identical methods
  • Is an important reference for researchers, occupational health professionals, and policy makers

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
  2. Effort-Reward Imbalance: Theory, Measurement and Research Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. The Measurement of Effort-Reward Imbalance (ERI) at Work

      • Diego Montano, Jian Li, Johannes Siegrist
      Pages 21-42
    3. A Life Course Perspective on Work Stress and Health

      • Morten Wahrendorf, Tarani Chandola
      Pages 43-66
    4. A Social Inequalities Perspective on Effort-Reward Imbalance at Work

      • Nico Dragano, Morten Wahrendorf
      Pages 67-85
  3. Work Stress and Health: Reviewing the Research Evidence

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87
    2. Effort-Reward Imbalance and Affective Disorders

      • Reiner Rugulies, Birgit Aust, Ida E. H. Madsen
      Pages 103-143
  4. The Context of Economic Globalization

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171
    2. Work Stress and Health: The Case of Japan

      • Akizumi Tsutsumi
      Pages 173-188
    3. Psychosocial Safety Climate as a Multilevel Extension of ERI Theory: Evidence from Australia

      • Mikaela S. Owen, Tessa S. Bailey, Maureen F. Dollard
      Pages 189-217
    4. Working Conditions and Effort-Reward Imbalance in Latin America

      • Viviola Gómez Ortiz, Arturo Juárez-García
      Pages 235-271
  5. Extensions Beyond Paid Work

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 273-273
    2. Failed Social Reciprocity Beyond the Work Role

      • Johannes Siegrist, Morten Wahrendorf
      Pages 275-291
    3. Household and Family Work and Health

      • Stefanie Sperlich, Siegfried Geyer
      Pages 293-311
  6. Interventions and Policy Implications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 313-313
    2. Reward, Flow and Control at Work

      • Tores Theorell
      Pages 315-332

About this book

This book provides a comprehensive, updated summary of research evidence on the effects of stressful working and employment conditions on workers’ health, as based on one of the worldwide leading theoretical models, effort-reward imbalance. It offers three innovative features that are appealing for research as well as for policy. 

Firstly, it presents and discusses comparable research findings from different continents, in particular from Japan, China, and Latin America. Secondly, it extends the conceptual framework of research on this topic by analysing associations of work stress with health in a life course perspective, and by linking these associations to the macro-level of national labour and social policies. Thirdly, the book helps to strengthen programs and policies that aim at promoting healthy work locally, nationally, and internationally, by providing solid facts on which such programs can be based.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Life Science Centre, University of Düsseldorf Life Science Centre, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Johannes Siegrist

  • Institute for Medical Sociology, University of Düsseldorf Institute for Medical Sociology, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Morten Wahrendorf

About the editors

Johannes Siegrist is a Senior Professor of Work Stress Research at the University of Duesseldorf, Germany. Previously, he was Professor of Medical Sociology and Director of the respective Institute, and additionally Director of the Postgraduate School of Public Health at Duesseldorf University. His long-standing research is devoted to the study of adverse effects of modern working conditions on health, with a particular focus on their contribution to health inequalities. He is the author of one of the internationally acknowledged models of stressful work, ‘effort-reward imbalance’. Among the many papers and books the volume on ‘Social Inequalities in Health’, edited with Michael Marmot in 2006, deserves special attention. Among other distinctions he is Fellow of Academia Europaea (London) and Corresponding Member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences.
Morten Wahrendorf is a senior researcher at the Centre for Health and Society, University of Duesseldorf, Germanywith substantial expertise in sociology, research methodology and statistics. He has previously worked at the International Centre For Lifecourse Studies In Society and Health (ICLS) at University College London. His main research interest are health inequalities in ageing populations and underlying pathways, with a particular focus on psychosocial working conditions, patterns of participation in paid employment and social activities in later life, and lifecourse influences. 

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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