"You are free to set your own hours": Governing worker productivity and health through flexibility and resilience

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1019-1033

  MacEachen, Ellen ^a,c   Polzer, Jessica ^b   Clarke, Judy ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR WORK AND HEALTH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Discourse analysis; Flexible work; Managers; Workplace health

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER INDUSTRY; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; HEALTH IMPACT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; WORKING CONDITIONS; WORKPLACE;

ARTICLE; CANADA; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATIVITY; DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKPLACE;

COMPUTERS; DATA COLLECTION; EFFICIENCY; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOFTWARE; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE; WORKPLACE;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 38749134172     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.11.013     Document Type: Article

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