Work Without Boundaries Psychological Perspectives on the New Working Life

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

• ISBN13: 9780470666142
• ISBN10: 0470666145
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-04
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Michael Allvin is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at Uppsala University and a licensed Psychologist. Gunnar Aronsson is Professor of Work and Organizational Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Stockholm University. Tom Hagstrm is Professor Emeritus of Education in the Department of Education, Stockholm University and a licensed Psychologist. Gunn Johansson is Professor Emeritus of Work Psychology in the Department of Psychology, Stockholm University. Ulf Lundberg is Professor of Biological Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Stockholm University, and at the Centre for Health Equity Studies (CHESS), affiliated with Stockholm University and the Karolinska Institute, Sweden.

Table of Contents

About the Authors	p. vii
Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
The New Work	p. 1
The new inequality	p. 4
New markets and new structures	p. 7
The new work life	p. 13
What is so new about ôThe New Workö?	p. 16
The new and the old work	p. 18
The purpose and structure of this book	p. 22
The New Rules of Work: On Flexible Work and How to Manage It	p. 25
Flexible work	p. 29
Flexibility through empowerment	p. 35
Flexibility through substitution	p. 48
Separate paths?	p. 60
The New Work Life and the Dimensions of Knowledge	p. 69
The cognitive knowledge demands	p. 71
The social knowledge demands	p. 81
The societal knowledge demands	p. 97
The existential knowledge demands	p. 107
Some concluding considerations	p. 120
The Place of Work in Life	p. 123
Separate spheres	p. 126
Competing spheres	p. 129
Coping with boundaries	p. 130
Mutually favored spheres	p. 133
New conditions outside work life: the consumption society	p. 134
The moral supermarket	p. 138
The market aesthetic	p. 141
The new family	p. 144
Organizing living	p. 149
Conflict and balance in life	p. 158
An individual matter	p. 162
Work Life, Stress, and the New Ill Health	p. 163
Stress as a social problem and research area	p. 167
Stress models for the work life	p. 172
The new work life as a source of stress	p. 189
The new ill health	p. 205
The new ill health, work environment, and the possibility space of work	p. 212
Some Concluding Comments and Reflections	p. 217
The deregulation of working life	p. 218
The individualization of working life	p. 219
The heterogenization of working life	p. 220
The new inequality	p. 221
New strains and symptoms	p. 222
Flexibility and power in times of economic recession	p. 223
Future - trust or new forms and fields for external regulation?	p. 225
References	p. 229
Index	p. 253
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