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

Title
Working without committments : the health effects of precarious employment / Wayne Lewchuk, Marlea Clarke, Alice De Wolf.
Author
Lewchuk, Wayne.
Publication
Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2011.

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Additional Authors
  • Clarke, Marlea.
  • De Wolff, Alice, 1947-
Description
viii, 335 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Canada
  • Employment > trends
  • Job stress > Canada
  • Occupational Health
  • Precarious employment > Health aspects > Canada
  • Precarious employment > Social aspects > Canada
  • Salaries and Fringe Benefits > trends
  • Social Change
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
ISBN
  • 9780773538276 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0773538275 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780773538283 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0773538283 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Columbia University Libraries