Work Without Boundaries Psychological Perspectives on the New Working Life

, by Allvin, Michael; Aronsson, Gunnar; Hagströ; m, Tom; Johansson, Gunn; Lundberg, Ulf

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ISBN: 9780470666135 | 0470666137
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 4/4/2011

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Translated and adapted from a Swedish original, Work without Boundaries: Psychological Perspectives on the New Working Life tackles the human impact of the changing nature of work. It brings together strands of research from a variety of disciplines including work psychology, occupational health psychology, social psychology, and psychobiology. Written by two leading international researchers and writers in this field, Work without Boundaries delivers new levels of understanding in the field and charts the way forward for future research.

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About the Authors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
The New Work
The new inequality
New markets and new structures
The new work life
What is so new about “The New Work”? The new and the old work
The purpose and structure of this book
The New Rules of Work: On Flexible Work and How to Manage It
Flexible work
Flexibility through empowerment
Flexibility through substitution
Separate paths?
The New Work Life and the Dimensions of Knowledge
The cognitive knowledge demands
The social knowledge demands
The societal knowledge demands
The existential knowledge demands
Some concluding considerations
The Place of Work in Life
Separate spheres
Competing spheres
Coping with boundaries
Mutually favored spheres
New conditions outside work life: the consumption society
The moral supermarket
The market aesthetic
The new family
Organizing living
Conflict and balance in life
An individual matter
Work Life, Stress, and the New Ill Health
Stress as a social problem and research area
Stress models for the work life
The new work life as a source of stress
The new ill health
The new ill health, work environment, and the possibility space of work
Some Concluding Comments and Reflections
The deregulation of working life
The individualization of working life
The heterogenization of working life
The new inequality
New strains and symptoms
Flexibility and power in times of economic recession
Future - trust or new forms and fields for external regulation?
References
Index.
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