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Unhealthy Work - Causes, Consequences, Cures (Hardcover)
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Unhealthy Work - Causes, Consequences, Cures (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Approaches in the Health Social Sciences Series
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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).
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