Overview

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 labours.

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Author:   Robert A. Karasek ,  Tores Theorell
Publisher:   Basic Books
Imprint:   Basic Books
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 23.10cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 15.90cm
Weight:   0.546kg
ISBN:  

9780465028979

ISBN 10:   0465028977
Pages:   398
Publication Date:   12 April 1992
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

The Psychosocial Work Environment, Health, and Well-Being * Health, Productivity, and Work Life * The Psychosocial Work Environment * The Environment, the Worker, and Illness: Psychological and Physiological Linkages * Psychosocial Job Characteristics and Heart Disease Health, Productivity, and the Reconstruction of Working Life * Psychosocial Job Characteristics and Productivity * Integrating Worker Health Analysis and Job Redesign * The Organizational Context of Job Redesign for Health and Productivity * The Technological Context of Job Redesign * Job Design Strategies for Different Occupational Groups * Jobs of the Future and the Global Economy

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Robert Karasek is professor of work environment at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.Tores Theorell, a physician, is also a professor at Sweden's National Institute for Psychosocial Factors and Health at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.

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