Health Effects of the New Labour Market

CONTENTS Introduction xv UNEMPLOYMENT AND DOWNSIZING Opening Address ............................................................ 3 Marie Jahoda A Social Scientist for and in the Real World: An Introduction to the Address by Professor Marie Jahoda ............................................... 5 David Fryer Unemployment and Mental Health: Hazards and Challenges of Psychology in the Community ................................................. 11 David Fryer Unemployment and Health Care Utilization ................................ 25 Allen Kraut, Cam Mustard, Randy Walld, and Robert Tate Unemployment and Social Networks among Young Persons in Sweden ........................................................................... 43 Ulla Arnell-Gustafsson On Empowerment and Health Effects of Temporary Alternative Employment ..................................................................... 61 Hugo Westerlund Empowerment, Learning and Social Action during Unemployment.... 75 Lennart Levi xi xii Contents Repeated Downsizing: Attitudes and Well-being for Surviving Personnel in A Swedish Retail Company ................................. Kerstin Isaksson, Johnny Hellgren and Pär Pettersson, FLEXIBILIZATION AND STRESS 85 Work Life and organizational Changes and how they are Perceived by the employees .............................................................. 105 Annika Härenstarn, Anna Rydbeck, Kerstin Johansson, Monica Karlqvist and Per Wiklund Enclosure in Human Services: The Panopticon of Dentistry............ 119 Eva Bejerot, Björn Söderfeldt The Impact of Organizational Changes of the Psychological Contract and Attitudes towards Work in Four Health Care Organizations....... 129 René Schalk, Charissa Freese Alternative Work Arrangements: Job Stress, Well-being and Work Attitudes among Employees with Different Employment Contracts ... Magnus Sverke, Daniel G. Gallagher and Johnny Hellgren Telework in Perspective - New Challenges to Occupational Health 145 and Safety ...................................................................... 169 Michael Ertel, Eberhard Pech and Peter Ullsperger The Relationship between Precarious Employment and Patterns of Occupational Violence: Survey Evidence from Thirteen Occupations ... 183 Claire Mayhew and Michael Quinlan New Working Time Arrangements, Health and Well-Being .......... 207 Torbjörn Åkerstedt, Göran Kecklund, Birgitta Olsson and Arne Lowden Determinants of the Attitudes to Work and Subjective Health ......... 215 Göran Kecklund, Torbjörn Åkerstedt, John Axelsson and Arne Lowden Emotional Exhaustion, Depersonalization and Health in Two Swedish Human Service Organizations ................................................ 231 Marie Söderfeldt Contents xiii OPPORTUNITIES AND CONSTRAINTS IN THE LABOUR MARKET The Polarization of the Labour Market and Exclusion of Vulnerable Groups .......................................................................... 245 Duncan Gallie The Quality of Work: The Work-Family Interface ........................ 267 Roel Schouteten and Marco de Witte From School to Work in The 1970s, 1980s and 1990s for Early School Leavers .......................................................................... 289 Åsa Murray Work Values and Early Work Socialization among Nurses and Engineers ....................................................................... Tom Hagström and Anders Kjellberg Occupational Hazards in the Informal Sector-A Global Perspective... 329 Rene Loewenson Index 343