Scarecrow Press
Pages: 376
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978-0-8108-5285-3 • Paperback • November 2004 • $110.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-4616-0766-3 • eBook • November 2004 • $104.50 • (£81.00)
Namir Khan is a lecturer at the Centre for Technology and Social Development in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto. Nina Nakajima is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Technology and Social Development, and acting Managing Editor of the Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society. Willem H. Vanderburg is the founding director of the Centre for Technology and Social Development in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto. Namir Khan and Willem Vanderburg are co-authors of several annotated bibliographies including Sustainable Production (2001), Sustainable Energy (2001), and Healthy Cities (2001), all published by Scarecrow.
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Healthy Work Bibliography
Chapter 3 Author Index
Chapter 4 Keyword Index
Chapter 5 About the Authors
This annotated bibliography will be useful for students of human work and the diverse disciplines it touches (e.g., engineering, management, technology design, public policy, sociology). Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals.
— CHOICE
The annotations are detailed and informative, as is the preface that thoroughly explains the underlying links between human work, communities, and society identified by the authors. This bibliography is a useful research, reference, and collection development tool.
— American Reference Books Annual
Healthy Work is recommended for academic libraries supporting graduate or undergraduate programs in occupational health, industrial technology, industrial psychology, business administration, or industrial design and for special collections or departmental libraries in those areas. Certainly libraries holding the previous bibliographies in this series will want to add this one. Corporate libraries with active or proposed wellness programs would find this title a useful addition in keeping with Vanderburg's stated purpose.
— Medical Reference Services Quarterly
...the authors examine typical workplace conditions and locate literature that addresses possible causes. The literature is listed alphabetically by author, but listings include key words and phrases which are the basis of the vitally important keyword index. Some of the issues the literature addresses include equality, psychology, management, morale, professional culture, stress, alienation, work design, and unions.
— Scitech Book News