Perceived Discrimination and Injury at Work: A Cross-Sectional Study Among Latino Day Laborers

Ibekwe, Lynn N; Atkinson, John; Guerrero-Luera, Rosalia; King, Yesmel A; Rangel, Maria Lizette; Fernandez‐Esquer, Maria Eugenia

doi:10.1007/s10903-022-01329-5

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“…Few studies have investigated whether mistreatment that is perceived to be rooted in discrimination 29 is associated with occupational injury. 30,31 Although two studies found that experiences of discrimination are associated with increasing risk of occupational injury, both have limitations related to exposure assessment. Ibekwe…”

Section: Mistreatment As a Risk Factor For Occupational Injurymentioning

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Adding injury to insult: Unfair treatment at work and occupational injury among hospital patient‐care workers

Sabbath,

Pan,

McTernan

et al. 2024

American J Industrial Med

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BackgroundHospital patient‐care workers have high occupational injury rates. While physical hazards within hospital work environments are established determinants of injury, social exposures may also contribute. This study examined how reports of unfair treatment at work, a dimension of work‐related experiences of discrimination, were associated with injury among hospital‐based patient‐care workers.MethodsWe used data from the Boston Hospital Workers Health Study, a longitudinal cohort of nurses and nursing assistants at two Boston‐area hospitals. In 2018, we conducted a worker survey asking about three types of unfair treatment at work and occupational injuries during the past year. We used mixed‐effects logistic regression models to evaluate associations between specific types, total load, and high‐frequency exposure of unfair treatment with injury, adjusting for age, gender, race and ethnicity, job title, and unit type.ResultsAmong 1001 respondents, 21% reported being humiliated in front of others at work, 28% reported being watched more closely than other workers, and 47% reported having to work twice as hard as others for the same treatment. For each type of unfair treatment, we observed a monotonic relationship with occupational injury wherein increasing frequency of exposure was associated with increased odds of injury. We also observed monotonic relationships between total load and high‐frequency exposure to unfair treatment and odds of injury.ConclusionsWork‐related unfair treatment is associated with injury among hospital workers. Programs and policies that focus on preventing unfair treatment may lessen injury burden in hospital workers.

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Section: Mistreatment As a Risk Factor For Occupational Injurymentioning

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Adding injury to insult: Unfair treatment at work and occupational injury among hospital patient‐care workers

Sabbath,

Pan,

McTernan

et al. 2024

American J Industrial Med

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“…Latino day laborers also experience harassment and racism from employers and the public. These employment conditions, in addition to psychosocial factors including language barriers, low wages, and immigration status, can adversely affect their health and well-being (Fernández-Esquer et al, 2021; Haro et al, 2020; Haro-Ramos & Rodriguez, 2022; Ibekwe et al, 2022; Negi et al, 2020; Organista et al, 2019; Ordóñez, 2015; Theodore, 2017).…”

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Hazard and Injury Experiences of Latino Day Laborers in Houston, Texas

Monforton,

Fernandez-Esquer,

Rangel

et al. 2023

Hisp Health Care Int

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Latino day laborers in the United States provide skilled labor to businesses and homeowners through informal work arrangements. We conducted exploratory qualitative research with Latino day laborers in Houston, Texas, to investigate their perceptions of safety risks and circumstances related to work-related injuries. We conducted focus groups with 34 participants and used risk mapping and body mapping activities to elicit greater engagement by the Latino day laborers in the conversations. Participants described physical, occupational, and psychosocial hazards that affected their risk for workplace injuries. They indicated a significant risk for injury was employers failing to provide proper tools or equipment for the job being done. The themes that emerged from the analysis were lack of control over employment conditions and the risk of performing unsafe work in order to meet financial needs. This formative qualitative research informed a pilot test and subsequent clinical trial of injury risk reduction strategies for Latino day laborers. Interventions to protect day laborers from work-related injuries should be informed by recognizing the employment and social dilemmas they confront.

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“…Workers in vulnerable situations are more often those with precarious employment status that offers little social protection and career prospects; temporary workers; or workers who are recent immigrants, racialised, or temporary foreign workers [6,[76][77][78][79][80]. Precarious workers rarely have the space to express their OHS concerns and often prefer, albeit reluctantly, to remain silent and endure a dangerous situation or pain rather than risk reprisals or losing their jobs [76,81,82]. However, these operating conditions, arduous work, and intense physical demands of a job are not synonymous with paradoxical situations, even if theoretically they can create them.…”

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A Reflection on Paradoxes and Double Binds in the Workplace in the Era of Super-Diversity

Côté

2023

Humans

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Occupational health and safety (OHS) is a largely technical field, still guided by a biomedical model of health that seeks to isolate factors that cause injury. Despite a growing literature on organisational and managerial factors influencing occupational health, their full integration into the OHS concept has been slow. A broader understanding is still needed to recognise the restructuring of work and the link between well-being at work and management style. In the context of a rapidly changing world of work, increasing workforce diversity, and inequality, OHS needs to take account of the social sciences and humanities to broaden its reductionist vision. Occupational illnesses, distress, and suffering, especially in relation to relational or organisational issues, have no initial cause or specific ontology; they result from a long-standing process or repetitive relational pattern that needs to be exposed and understood in greater depth, considering contextual factors and dynamics. Using the authors’ anthropological backgrounds and the basic principles of the double bind theory developed many decades ago by Gregory Bateson and his colleagues at the Palo Alto School of Communication, we propose a reflection on pragmatic paradoxes or double bind situations in the workplace (which can be briefly defined as the presence of contradictory or conflicting demands or messages), their potential impact on workers’ health and well-being, and how to resolve them. This paper sought to explore the world of pragmatic paradoxes and double binds by discussing different categories, types, or forms of paradoxes/double binds that occur in the context of occupational health and their underlying mechanisms. It also includes a discussion of the possible link to the concept of super-diversity, as it too is associated with migration channels, employment, gendered flows, and local systems. Finally, we discuss the practical implications of this understanding for health professionals, researchers, and policymakers, from a perspective of promoting more holistic and context-sensitive interactional approaches to occupational health.

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Perceived Discrimination and Injury at Work: A Cross-Sectional Study Among Latino Day Laborers

Cited by 4 publications

References 32 publications

Adding injury to insult: Unfair treatment at work and occupational injury among hospital patient‐care workers

Adding injury to insult: Unfair treatment at work and occupational injury among hospital patient‐care workers

Hazard and Injury Experiences of Latino Day Laborers in Houston, Texas

A Reflection on Paradoxes and Double Binds in the Workplace in the Era of Super-Diversity

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