From Job Strain to Employment Strain: Health Effects of Precarious Employment

Effects of Intimate Partner Violence on Low-Income Women's Health and Employment

“…These jobs may provide women little opportunity to exert personal control over their work environment or job tasks, yet require considerable effort (such as finding transportation and day care or thwarting abuser attempts at work sabotage). Precarious employment creates job strain, which increases mental and physical stress-related illness in the long term (Lewchuk, de Wolff, King, & Polanyi, 2003).…”

Experiences of Employment Precariousness and Psychological Well-being in East Central Sweden

“…The overall assumption is that employment strain increases when employment relationship uncertainty is high and the effort required to find and keep employment is significant. This combination of precarious uncertainties can influence stress levels and ultimately psychological health [30]. The limited available evidence has shown that workers who experience high levels of employment relationship uncertainty and high levels of employment relationship effort have poor health outcomes [30,31], regardless of whether the workers have support or not.…”

“…In this study, we departed from the Lewchuk et al conceptual framework regarding employment strain and health [30] to understand how precarious types of employment might damage psychological health. This framework draws on ideas from the Karasek job strain model, which focuses on stresses linked to control and other issues surrounding a work organization and addresses uncertainties, control and support factors surrounding the employment relationship itself [30,31].…”

“…This framework draws on ideas from the Karasek job strain model, which focuses on stresses linked to control and other issues surrounding a work organization and addresses uncertainties, control and support factors surrounding the employment relationship itself [30,31].…”

Unacceptable forms of work: A multidimensional model

“…Precarious Work arrangements are associated with unsafe and unhealthy conditions. Temporary workers, for example, are less likely than permanent employees to receive adequate work-related training and more likely to be occupied in lower-skilled jobs that are associated with poor health outcomes, while their occupational safety and health is poorly monitored by inspection systems (Quinlan 1999;Lewchuk et al 2003;Bohle et al 2004;Benach and Muntaner 2007;Lewchuk et al 2011). Workers in precarious forms of work enjoy less autonomy and control over the labour process and work schedules, features of jobs that are associated with work-related stress (Lewchuk, Clarke and De Wolff 2011).…”