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Work and the quality of life; resource papers for Work in America.
- Title
- Work and the quality of life; resource papers for Work in America. Edited by James O'Toole.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press [1974]
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- Description
- xv, 414 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Anthology of working papers on work environment in the USA - covers job satisfaction, alienation, occupational health (incl. Mental stress), the quality of working life and job enrichment, vocational training, the role of the family, employees attitudes, labour mobility and the labour market, special problems of the woman worker and of middle management, social policy considerations, etc. References and statistical tables.
- Uniform Title
- Work in America.
- Subject
- Manpower policy > United States
- Labor supply > United States
- Job satisfaction
- Employment (Economic theory)
- Occupations
- Employment
- Job Satisfaction
- Occupations
- employing
- occupations (livelihoods)
- Job satisfaction
- Labor supply
- Manpower policy
- work environment
- job satisfaction
- alienation
- occupational health
- stress
- quality of working life
- job enrichment
- vocational training
- family
- employees attitude
- labour mobility
- labour market
- women workers
- middle management
- social policy
- statistical table
- Job satisfaction > United States
- Politique de l'emploi > États-Unis
- Marché du travail > États-Unis
- Satisfaction au travail
- milieu de travail
- satisfaction au travail
- aliénation
- santé au travail
- qualité de la vie de travail
- enrichissement des tâches
- formation professionnelle
- famille
- attitude des salariés
- mobilité de la main-d'oeuvre
- marché du travail
- travailleuses
- cadres moyens
- politique sociale
- tableau statistique
- ambiente de trabajo
- satisfacción en el trabajo
- alienación
- salud en el trabajo
- estrés
- calidad de la vida de trabajo
- revalorización del trabajo
- formación profesional
- familia
- actitud de los trabajadores
- movilidad de la mano de obra
- mercado de trabajo
- trabajadoras
- mandos intermedios
- política social
- cuadros estadísticos
- United States
- USA
- Etats-Unis
- Estados Unidos
- Genre/Form
- Essay
- essays.
- Essays
- working paper.
- anthology.
- reference.
- Essays.
- Essais.
- document de travail.
- anthologie.
- référence bibliographique.
- documento de trabajo.
- antología.
- referencia.
- Note
- Consists of 16 of the 39 papers prepared for a study, the results of which were issued in a report to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, published in 1973 under title: Work in America.
- "Prepared under the auspices of the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Foreword / Elliot L. Richardson -- Introduction / James O'Toole -- "They won't work" : the end of the Protestant ethic and all that / Ivar Berg -- Is there a blue-collar revolt against work? / George Strauss -- Upward mobility, job monotony, and labor market structure / Michael J. Piore -- Perspectives on women and work in America / Isabel V. Sawhill -- Middle management / Emanuel Kay -- Work and the health of man / Bruce L. Margolis and William H. Kroes -- The effects of occupational stress on physical health / James S. House -- Work and mental health / Stanislav V. Kasl -- The work module : a proposal for the humanization of work / Robert L. Kahn -- Alienation and innovation in the workplace / Richard E. Walton -- Improving the quality of work life : sociotechnical case studies / Louis E. Davis and Eric L. Trist -- Occupational bias in formal education and its effect on preparing children for work / David C. MacMichael -- Vocational education for all in high school? / Beatrice G. Reubens -- Work experience and family life / Frank F. Furstenberg -- Work, well-being, and family life / Lee Rainwater -- Work and welfare / Thomas C. Thomas -- Afterword / Edward M. Kennedy.
- ISBN
- 0262150158
- 9780262150156
- 026265010X
- 9780262650106
- LCCN
- 74000548
- OCLC
- ocm00801553
- 801553
- SCSB-2034938
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library