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Additional authors

1. O'Toole, James.
2. W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.

Description

1. xv, 414 pages; 23 cm

Summary

1. 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

1. Work in America.

Subject

1. Manpower policy > United States
2. Labor supply > United States
3. Job satisfaction
4. Employment (Economic theory)
5. Occupations
6. Employment
7. Job Satisfaction
8. Occupations
9. employing
10. occupations (livelihoods)
11. Job satisfaction
12. Labor supply
13. Manpower policy
14. work environment
15. job satisfaction
16. alienation
17. occupational health
18. stress
19. quality of working life
20. job enrichment
21. vocational training
22. family
23. employees attitude
24. labour mobility
25. labour market
26. women workers
27. middle management
28. social policy
29. statistical table
30. Job satisfaction > United States
31. Politique de l'emploi > États-Unis
32. Marché du travail > États-Unis
33. Satisfaction au travail
34. milieu de travail
35. satisfaction au travail
36. aliénation
37. santé au travail
38. qualité de la vie de travail
39. enrichissement des tâches
40. formation professionnelle
41. famille
42. attitude des salariés
43. mobilité de la main-d'oeuvre
44. marché du travail
45. travailleuses
46. cadres moyens
47. politique sociale
48. tableau statistique
49. ambiente de trabajo
50. satisfacción en el trabajo
51. alienación
52. salud en el trabajo
53. estrés
54. calidad de la vida de trabajo
55. revalorización del trabajo
56. formación profesional
57. familia
58. actitud de los trabajadores
59. movilidad de la mano de obra
60. mercado de trabajo
61. trabajadoras
62. mandos intermedios
63. política social
64. cuadros estadísticos
65. United States
66. USA
67. Etats-Unis
68. Estados Unidos

Genre/Form

1. Essay
2. essays.
3. Essays
4. working paper.
5. anthology.
6. reference.
7. Essays.
8. Essais.
9. document de travail.
10. anthologie.
11. référence bibliographique.
12. documento de trabajo.
13. antología.
14. referencia.

Contents

1. 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.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. 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.
2. "Prepared under the auspices of the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research."

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.