Is Work Dangerous to Our Health? Occupational Stress

• QUESTION of the day: In what ways does work cause stress? What can workers do to protect themselves? What is an employer's responsibility?

• READINGS:

  Hodson and Sullivan, The Social Organization of Work, "Unemployment, Inadequate Work, and Hazardous Work & Disability," Chapter 5, pp. 130-148.

  "Stress on the Job," Newsweek, April 25, 1988. CP 21.

  Romona Ford, "Work, Stress, and Health," from How Workers are Affected by the Social Structure. CP 22.

• Web sites you might want to check out concerning temporary workers and stress:

  Temp 24-7

  Temp Slave!

• Here are 4 web pages from the N&O on repetitive motion injuries:

  Definitions and descriptions of work related injuries

  What Glaxo Wellcome is doing about injuries

  What Perdue Chickens is doing

  What UNC is doing

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