Work and Mental Health in Social Context

• Main Authors: Tausig, Mark (Author), Fenwick, Rudy (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Social Disparities in Health and Health Care
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Medicine.; Social policy.; Sociology.; Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Social Policy.

The authors of Work and Mental Health in Social Context take a different approach to understanding the causes of job stress. Job stress is systematically created by the characteristics of the jobs themselves: by the workers’ occupation, the organizations in which they work, their placements in diffe...

Table of Contents:

• Preface.-Introduction: Job Stress and Where it Comes From.-Chapter 2. Job Structures, Job Stress and Mental Health.-Chapter 3. Organizational Determinants of Job Stressors
• Chapter 4. Occupational Determinants of Job Stress: Socioeconomic Status and Segmented Labor Markets.-Chapter 5. Macroeconomic Change, Unemployment and Job Stress
• Chapter 6. Institutional Factors.-Chapter 7. Work and Mental Health in Social Context.