| Document ID (ISN) | 55229 |
| CIS number |
91-348 |
| ISBN(s) |
3-924859-74-4 |
| Year |
1989 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Author(s) |
Starrin B., Svensson P.G., Wintersberger H.
European Centre for Social Welfare Training and Research |
| Title |
Unemployment, poverty and quality of working life - Some European experiences |
| Bibliographic information |
Edition Sigma, Rainer Bohn Verlag, Heimstrasse 14, 1000 Berlin 61, Germany, 1989. 366p. Illus. Bibl. Price: DEM 39.00. |
| Abstract |
This book is divided into 3 main sections: Part 1 - Unemployment, poverty and ill-health (individual and community adaptation to unemployment; social support, psychological well-being and psychosomatic symptoms; vulnerabilities of the very long-term unemployed; stress reactions); Part 2 - Unemployment and working life (health effects of work and exclusion from work; work, unemployment, poverty and stress; unemployment, overtime and work intensity; adaptational responses to economic stressors); Part 3 - Interventions and mobilisations (improvement of the psychosocial situation of the unemployed; psychological intervention for the prevention of health hazards due to unemployment and poverty; innovative interventions to counteract damaging health effects). |
| Descriptors (primary) |
Europe; unemployment; health hazards |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
WHO; mental health; social aspects; mental stress; psychological effects; conditions of work |
| Document type |
E - Books, reports, proceedings |
| Country / State or Province | Germany |
| Subject(s) |
Psychology and sociology
|
| Broad subject area(s) |
Stress, psychosocial factors
|
| Browse category(ies) |
Unemployment
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