Required readings:
– Jackson, Andrew and Mark Thomas, Work and Labour in Canada: Critical Issues (2017), Chapters 4 and 7
Jackson, Andrew and Mark Thomas, Work and Labour in Canada: Critical Issues (2017), Chapter 4
1. What type of workers are the most likely to experience job insecurity, workplace stress and dangerous working conditions? See end of page 67.
2. Health risks are created in the workplace as a result of the existence of what conditions? See page 68 for the list.
3. What is the definition of high job strain and what health conditions are linked to it?
4. Go to this website. https://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?queryid=82335
It contains cross-national data on job strain. Make sure age, sex and education are set to “Total”. Select the time period 2015 (latest year for which data are available unfortunately). What three countries had the highest percentages of job strain in 2015? What three countries had the lowest percentages of job strain? The percentages are provided in a single column located to the right of country names.
