Healthy Work

Stress, Productivity, and the Reconstruction Of Working Life

By: Robert Karasek, Tores Theorell

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Paperback | 1 January 2001 | Edition Number 1

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Based in a decade-long study of nearly five thousand workers, this pathbreaking book identifies a clear connection between work-related illness and workers lack of control.. Evidence is accumulating that in many contemporary work environments people are literally working themselves to death. But what do we really know about job-related stress and illness? Based on a ten-year study of nearly five thousand workers, this path-breaking book by a distinguished industrial engineer and sociologist and a specialist in industrial medicine identifies a clear connection between work-related illness and workers lack of participation in the design and outcome of their labors.

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Preface
Health, Productivity, and Work Life	p. 1
The Psychosocial Work Environment	p. 31
The Environment, the Worker, and Illness: Psychological and Physiological Linkages	p. 83
Psychosocial Job Characteristics and Heart Disease	p. 117
Psychosocial Job Characteristics and Productivity	p. 161
Integrating Worker Health Analysis and Job Redesign	p. 200
The Organizational Context of Job Redesign for Health and Productivity	p. 228
The Technological Context of Job Redesign	p. 251
Job Design Strategies for Different Occupational Groups	p. 276
Jobs of the Future and the Global Economy	p. 302
Appendix: Statistical Validity of Psychosocial Work Dimensions in the U.S. Quality of Employment Surveys	p. 335
References	p. 347
Index	p. 373
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