Generations at Work

Generations at Risk

This report was adapted from Generations at Risk: How Environmental Exposures May Affective Reproductive Health in Massachusetts, by Greater Boston PSR and the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group Education Fund (1995). Internal design of the original Massachusetts version by Lynn Martin of Martin/VanderLoop Associates. Internal layout of this publication by Linda Hayashi (Feral House) ...

Baby Boomers and the Lost Generation: On the discursive construction of generations at work

Generations, and generational categories, offer a means of organising our understandings of age and age-related issues. Particularly within practitioner-orientated debates, differences between generations are highlighted as creating tensions which organisations must address. In contrast, we offer a critical interrogation of generations and unpack the implications of particular constructions. Sp...

Future Generations and Genetic Enhancement (work in progress)

This chapter will cut to the core of the main topic of my dissertation by analyzing the way in which enhancing technologies that are aimed at modifying the genome or gene expression of the individuals within the present generation may influence the potential interests of future generations. So far, my strategy has been to clarify my working concepts which are recurrent and of great significance...

Fixed-term work and violence at work.

OBJECTIVES This study investigated the effect of a fixed-term job contract on encounters of violence at work. We assumed that fixed-term employees encountered more violence or threats of violence at their work than permanent employees. METHODS This study is based on 3 large statistical data sets: (a) the Work and Health surveys carried out by the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health in 19...

Coparticipation at work: Knowing and work practicer