Healthy WorkEvidence 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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Healthy work: stress, productivity, and the reconstruction of working life
User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictKarasek and Theorell, American and Swedish academicians respectively, analyze in their important work how heart disease, diabetes, and other stress-related ailments are generated by the way in which ... Read full review
Contents
Health Productivity and Work Life | 1 |
The Psychosocial Work Environment | 31 |
Social Support at Work and | 66 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Healthy Work |
| Authors | Robert A. Karasek, Töres Theorell |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Basic Books, 1990 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Jan 2010 |
| ISBN | 0465028969, 9780465028962 |
| Length | 381 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Human Resources & Personnel Management Self-Help / Self-Management / Stress Management Social Science / Sociology / General |
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