Working without committments
Subtitle: the health effects of precarious employment
By: Wayne Lewchuk, Marlea Clarke, Alice De Wolf
Contributors: Clarke, Marlea; De Wolff, Alice, 1947-
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Montréal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780773538276; 9780773538283
Subjects: Trends; Social Change; Job stress; Precarious employment; Employment; Salaries and Fringe Benefits; Occupational Health
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Working without commitments: employment relationships and health; title: A short history of the employment relationship: control, effort, and support; title: Working without commitments and the characteristics of the employment relationship; title: Gender, race, and the characteristics of the employment relationship; title: The employment strain model and the health effects of less permanent employment; title: The blurred lines between precariousness and permanence; title: Sustainable, less permanent employment; title: "On a path" to employment security?; title: Unsustainable, less permanent employment; title: Creating commitments in less permanent employment: policy reforms to address rising insecurity.