Sociology 3308F/G Lecture Notes - Blue-Collar Worker, Truck Driver, Deskilling
17 Mar 2014
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Historically, fewer workers today are full-time: around 80% of all employment, pt growing faster than ft, around 16% self-employed, increasing, around 7% unemployed. Poor employment conditions for health include: dirty, dangerous, harmful exposure, high levels of stress due to : Abuse of power by supervisors or coworkers. Hazards on the job: physical, chemical, biological, psychological. Physical: things in blue collars jobs, cuts bruises, falls, just being sedentary. Chemical: cleaning products, hair stylists, farming (pesticides) heavy metals with manufacturing. Biological: needle pricks, janitor in the hospital. Psychological: workplace bulling physical bulling, cyber, exclusion. Hazards vary by the type of job: blue collar work: physical/chemical/biological, white collar: physical repetitive motion, injury and violence, psychological hazards found in both types of work. Gender differences in exposure: most likely: Women: chronic health problems, job stress: but both genders experience both types of hazards. Age: physical injury men < age 30 (its typical with young men) Hazards change over time: changing nature of work.
