HTHSCI 2RR3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Peer Pressure, Prescription Drug, Absenteeism
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Chapter 5 (pages 75-87): precarious work and the labour market. Chapter 6 (pages 88-98): labour market flexibility and worker insecurity. Chapter 7 (pages 99-113): the unhealthy worker (type out) Chapter 8 (only table 1 page 117): key dimensions of the working environment that are related to health. boundaryless careers. One moves up the hierarchy in one"s career. Protection, stable, permanent job with any interruptions in the continuity covered by unemployment insurance. Various forms of work are multiplying security. Involves a sense of well-being or control, or mastery over one"s activities and development, as well as the enjoyment of certain self-esteem. Defence against the development of a technical division of labour, often though measures that preserve some of the social division of labour or segmentation of the labour process. Collective/societal security could be seen as the need to identify with or belong to a group, typically to exercise control over the behaviour of others or to limit their control.