Working without committments [electronic resource] : the health effects of precarious employment / Wayne Lewchuk, Marlea Clarke, Alice De Wolf.

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ISBN:

9780773586260

Title:

Working without committments [electronic resource] : the health effects of precarious employment / Wayne Lewchuk, Marlea Clarke, Alice De Wolf.

Author:

Lewchuk, Wayne.

Personal Author:

Lewchuk, Wayne.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 335 pages) : illustrations, digital file

Contents:

Working without commitments: employment relationships and health -- A short history of the employment relationship: control, effort, and support -- Working without commitments and the characteristics of the employment relationship -- Gender, race, and the characteristics of the employment relationship -- The employment strain model and the health effects of less permanent employment -- The blurred lines between precariousness and permanence -- Sustainable, less permanent employment -- "On a path" to employment security? -- Unsustainable, less permanent employment -- Creating commitments in less permanent employment: policy reforms to address rising insecurity.

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Subject Term:

Precarious employment -- Health aspects -- Canada.

Precarious employment -- Social aspects -- Canada.

Job stress -- Canada.

Geographic Term:

Canada.

Added Author:

De Wolff, Alice, 1947-

Clarke, Marlea.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2011

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Summary

From the end of the Second World War to the early 1980s, the North American norm was that men had full-time jobs, earned a "family wage," and expected to stay with the same employer for life. In households with children, most women were unpaid caregivers. This situation began to change in the mid-1970s as two-earner households became commonplace, with women entering employment through temporary and part-time jobs. Since the 1980s, less permanent precarious employment has increasingly become the norm for all workers.

Author Notes

Lewchuk Wayne :

Wayne Lewchuk is a professor of labour studies and economics at McMaster University. Marlea Clarke is an assistant professor in political science at the University of Victoria and a research associate of the Labour and Enterprise Policy Research Group (LWayne Lewchuk is a professor of labour studies and economics at McMaster University. Marlea Clarke is an assistant professor in political science at the University of Victoria and a research associate of the Labour and Enterprise Policy Research Group (LEP) at the University of Cape Town. Alice de Wolff is a research coordinator who has managed projects and organizations related to equity, employment, adult education, and international development. She was a member of York University's Alliance on Contingent Employment.

Reviews (1)

Choice Review

This book comes at an especially appropriate time, given the debates in the US over health care and the disputes over the rights of unions in the public sector. It begins by summarizing the evolution of the "employment-relationship," indicating that society may be returning to an earlier time of less-secure employment and employee benefits. The hypothesis, referred to as the "job strain" model, is that workers' rights to a job are determinants of workers' health. The more precarious and tentative jobs are, the less healthy and therefore less productive the workers. To test their claims, the authors (Canadian academicians and researchers) examine the Canadian labor market, though extensions to the US are obvious. Dramatic trends toward less-certain employment began in the 1980s, even though job tenure statistics do not seem to capture the change. Many of the findings are derived from a population-based survey of the Toronto area. In addition, there were two set of interviews in 2006 and 2007. The authors discuss how changes in the employment relationship and the idea of job commitment have significant implications for the role of government in the labor market. Extensive bibliography. The book is quite accessible to anyone in the social sciences. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduate through professional readership. J. F. O'Connell emeritus, College of Holy Cross