ISBN:
9781461406259
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
,
v.: digital
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law
Series Statement:
Social Disparities in Health and Health Care
DDC:
158.7
Keywords:
Social sciences
;
Medicine
;
Social policy
Abstract:
Anyone who has ever had a job has probably experienced work-related stress at some point or another. For many workers, however, job-related stress is experienced every day and reaches more extreme levels. Four in ten American workers say that their jobs are "very" or "extremely" stressful. Job stress is recognized as an epidemic in the workplace, and its economic and health care costs are staggering: by some estimates over 1 billion per year in lost productivity, absenteeism and worker turnover, and at least that much in treating its health effects, ranging from anxiety an
Description / Table of Contents:
Work and Mental Health in Social Context; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1: Job Stress and Where It Comes from; Introduction; The Evolution of Job Stress Research; A Note on the Meaning of Job Stress; The Sociology of Job Stress; Job Conditions; Organizations; The Labor Market; Macroeconomic Change; Institutional Environments; New Forms of Work; Women in the Labor Force; Social Inequality; The Full Model; Data Considerations; Organization of the Book; References; Chapter 2: Job Structures, Job Stress, and Mental Health; Job Structures and Stress; Job Structures as Stressors
Description / Table of Contents:
Theoretical Models of the Stressor-Stress Relationship (P-E Fit)Theoretical Models of the Stressor-Stress Relationship (Demand-Control); Other Dimensions of Work Authority; Other Dimensions of Work Participation in Decision-Making; Other Dimensions of Work-Job Insecurity; Other Dimensions of Work Social Support; Theoretical Models of the Stressor-Stress Relationship (Job Demands-Resources); Stress-Related Health Outcomes; Physical Health; Mental Health; General Indicators of Distress; Related Outcome Constructs; The Limits of Demand-Control Theory
Description / Table of Contents:
Beyond the Limits of an Individual-Based Explanation of Job StressReferences; Chapter 3: Organizational Determinants of Job Stressors; Overview; Conceptualizing Organizational Structures and Practices; Organizations as "Rational" Systems; Organizations as Structures of "Control"; Organizations in the Post-Fordist Era: Flexible Work Systems; Informal Work Structures; Summary; References; Chapter 4: Occupational Determinants of Job Stress: Socioeconomic Status and Segmented Labor Markets; Overview; Socioeconomic Status, Occupations, and Stress; Segmented Labor Markets
Description / Table of Contents:
Segmented Labor Markets and Stressful JobsSegmentation by Population Groups: "Split Labor Markets"; Post-Fordist Labor Markets; Summary; References; Chapter 5: Macroeconomic Change, Unemployment, and Job Stress; Overview; Economic Contractions and the Labor Market; Health Effects of Economic Contraction; Economic Change and Population Health; Individual Experiences with Unemployment; The Macroeconomic Context or Work and Stress: Linking the Macro to the Micro; Summary; References; Chapter 6: Institutional Factors; Introduction; Organizational Environments
Description / Table of Contents:
Resource and Institutional EnvironmentsNew Forms of Organization and Work; The Flexible Work System and Its Consequences; Functional Flexibility; Numerical Flexibility; The Labor Market as Environment; Women and Job Stress in the Context of Institutional Change; Summary; References; Chapter 7: Work and Mental Health in Social Context; Work and Job Stress; Contributions to the Sociological Study of Labor Markets; The Sociological Model of Job Stress; Contributions to the Explanation of Social Determinants of Health; Contributions to the Sociological Study of the Stress-Process Model
Description / Table of Contents:
Contributions to the Study of Job Stress
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4614-0625-9
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