Working Life

Wages and other sources of family income are of course matters of survival. However, things that affect the experience of work are also important. Where work is satisfying, purposeful and rewarding the effect on the health, well-being and happiness of the person can be positive; even profoundly so....

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Hauptverfasser:	Kyprianou, Paul, O'Brien, Mark
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Antisocial behavior Behavioral sciences Bullying Business Business administration Children Clinical psychology Economic disciplines Economics Employee benefit plans Employee benefits Employee compensation Employee leave Employment Families Family relations Finance Financial economics Funding Human behavior Human geography Human populations Human resources Human societies Job stress Labor economics Minimum wage Parental leave Paternity leave Pension plans Persons Population studies Psychological stress Psychology Social behavior Social institutions Social sciences Sociology Wages Welfare economics Workplaces
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Zusammenfassung:	Wages and other sources of family income are of course matters of survival. However, things that affect the experience of work are also important. Where work is satisfying, purposeful and rewarding the effect on the health, well-being and happiness of the person can be positive; even profoundly so. Where it is none of these things it can impact negatively upon the person in all of these respects and more. For the lowest paid and the unskilled, work has seldom ever been anything other than necessary; ‘the job’ being a means of providing a livelihood and supporting dependents; ‘the workplace’ rarely