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Unit 4 - Work & Health Flashcards

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What can unemployment lead to?

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  • Material and social deprivation (things you do not have)
  • Psychological stress
  • Adoption of health-threatening coping behaviours
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What is unemployment associated with?

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Physical & mental health problems

eg. depression, anxiety, increased suicide rates

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What can job insecurity cause?

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Burnout
Mental/psychological problems
Poor self-rated health
Variety of somatic complaints

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What is OECD?

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Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development

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What does OECD guidelines set?

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Set standards for responsible business conduct across a range of issues (eg. human rights, labour rights, and the environment)

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How is Canada ranked according to the OECD guidelines?

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Ranks very poorly

  • 35 out of 36 in employment protection index of rules and regulations that protects employment and provides benefits to temporary workers
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Why are working conditions important SDoH?

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  • Great amount of time spent in workplace
  • People already vulnerable are most likely to experience
    health threatening working conditions
  • Depending on the job placement, there may be benefits that will decide if you have access to other things (eg. dentist)
  • Types of job –> safety
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What are the key work dimensions that shape health outcomes?

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Job strain
Effort-reward imbalance
Organizational justice
Work hours
Status inconsistency
Precarious work

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Precarious employment

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Work is uncertain, insecure, unstable
- Insecurity exists across various dimensions of work and social & economic vulnerability

eg. Temporary, part time, contractual jobs
- Uncertain when will work next, when will get paycheck, etc

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How is healthcare as a precarious profession in Canada?

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Health care is third in the % of professionals in each industry reporting have some type of precarious work

  • Most jobs in healthcare are temporary
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More than __ in __ Canadian professionals have precarious jobs

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More than 1 in 5 Canadian professionals have precarious jobs

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How does age affect precarious jobs?

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Ppl 65+ have more precarious work
- Second place is ppl 20-34 yrs old

  • Ageist
  • Many ppl 65+ are going back to work after retirement
  • New to the field, just starting (ppl 20-34 yrs old)
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Historical labour market transformation (4 stages)

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  1. Farming/agriculure
  2. 1st & 2nd industrial revolution
    • railroad
    • unions
  3. 3rd industrial revolution - technology/knowledge economy
    • electricity
    • credentials (qualifications)
  4. 4th industrial revolution - artificial intelligence
    • some deliver fast samples to labs
    • some do surgeries with doctors
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Historical labour market transformation (4 stages)

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  1. Farming/agriculture
  2. 1st & 2nd industrial revolution
    • railroad
    • unions
  3. 3rd industrial revolution - technology/knowledge economy
    • electricity
    • credentials (qualifications)
  4. 4th industrial revolution - artificial intelligence
    • some deliver fast samples to labs
    • some do surgeries with doctors
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How is the labour market today?

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  • Careers related to the development of projects (consultant, project management, coordinator)
  • Work in several jobs over the course of a lifetime
    • jobs are very unstable
  • Creates “boundaryless” (nomadic/unstable) careers vs. “vertical ladder” careers
  • Need a lot of credentials to get a job
    • can get a lot of degrees
    • can get a lot of certifications online
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Boundaryless career

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Often represents tech/knowledge economy: mobile
work, networks and virtual communities of practice

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Traditional Career

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Represents industrial work: one stop shop, first job/last
job, climbing the vertical ladder

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Cons of boundaryless career

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  • More flexibility in jobs & self-employment
  • False sense of self-employment
  • Precarious work (lack of stability, permanence and/or benefits)
  • New classifications of employment statuses (casual, contract, temporary, reduced-time, part-time, etc.)
    – “gig” economy
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Unemployment rate

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Number of ppl in the labour force (15-64 yrs old) actively looking for a job & ppl who are able to work

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Employment rate

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Employed divided by the total labour force

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Who is included in the unemployment rate?

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Homeless ppl
Ppl who do not want to work
Ppl who are able to work

Not included:
- Ppl who are retired
- Students (full-time)
- Ppl who physically can not work

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Precariat

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Precarious (insecure) + proletariat (working class)

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What does security equal?

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Job security

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Enables economic and social inclusion

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Income security
Economic inclusion - Has multiple streams of income (will be fine economically)
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Intersectionality
The interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage
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Racialized Canadians throughout the years
1980 - 5.% were racialized Canadians 2006 - 16.2% 2031 - 32% 1/3 of Canada’s population
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Pay gap b/w racialized Canadians
* Racialized workers earn 81.4 cents per dollar compared to non-racialized workers - Will not see this in strong unions
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Why is there a pay gap between races in Canada in the workplace?
- Racialized workers are more willing to work but have a harder time finding jobs - Jobs found are more likely to be part-time, low-wage, insecure
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Employment Inequity: Gender-based inequity
Non-racialized women earn 69 cents per dollar non-racialized men earn Women earn less than men
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Employment Inequity: Race-based inequity
* racialized men earn 76 cents per dollar non-racialized men earn * racialized women earn 85 cents for every dollar non-racialized women earn Non-racialized men earn more than racialized men Non-racialized women earn more than racialized women
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Employment Inequity: Gender-based + race-based inequity (intersectionality)
Racialized women earn 58 cents per dollar non-racialized men earn Racialized women earn about half what non-racialized men earn
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How did Covid-19 affect the labour market for Indigenous and Racialized workers?
- Impacts more severe for Indigenous and racialized households (greater economic hardship) - Employment in industries at risk of job losses - Employment in occupations at risk of infections - Had to work during the outbreak of covid - Unemployment and employment gap
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% of households facing hardships 2020-2022
28% of Indigenous Peoples 31% of racialized households 16% of white households Racialized households affected the most, then Indigenous ppl, then white households
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Unemployment Rates: Indigenous vs Non-Indigenous
- Women overall have higher unemployment rates - Indigenous women has the highest unemployment rate, then non-Indigenous women, then Indigenous men, then non-indigenous men - Unemployment rate has been increasing for Indigenous women in 2021 - Unemployment rate has been decreasing for non-Indigenous women in 2021 - Unemployment rate has been decreasing for both groups of men - Indigenous men still has a higher % of unemployment rate than non-Indigenous men
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Unemployment Rates: Racialized vs White Workers
- Women are employed in occupations with a higher risk of infections - Racialized women and white women are very similar in percentage - White men are least likely to be in those occupations - Unemployment rate has been decreasing for both groups in 2021 - Racialized group still has a higher % of unemployment even though both groups are decreasing - Employment rates for both groups are increasing - Racialized group still has a lower % of being employed - But the gap b/w the % of the two groups has been decreasing compared to 2020
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Jobs in pandemic Racialized workers concentrated in the 3 industries that were ______?
- Most likely to suffer job losses - More concentrated in frontline occupations with high infection risk - In health care, more racialized workers are working more dangerous jobs/positions
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What is a factor of the new economy?
Flexible production Goods produced faster and cheaper --> consequence --> people change brands more often & want latest product
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How do companies cope with flexible production of the new economy?
Functional flexibility - Workers work harder and longer - how workers can work more efficiently - Focus on outcomes (“lean production") Numerical flexibility - Downsizing - Part-time/contract - Focus on cost-reduction
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Flexible production and health: Intensification of work
- Leisure sickness - unable to rest b/c required to work - work getting harder - repetitive strain injuries (less visible and hard to connect to one job) - eg. typing, using a mouse
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Flexible production and health: Non-standard work hours
- longer non-standard hours - physiological & psychological health disturbances - family conflict
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Flexible production and health: Precarious work
- poorer conditions - low control of job - low control of your life - less socialization
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Flexible production and health: Job insecurity
- associations between illness and downsizing - downsizing --> possible to lose job - family dynamics and parenting
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Flexible production and health: Employment insecurity
- stress of no employment options - can't find a job specific to their degree
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Flexible production and health: Income insecurity
- income inadequacy (poverty) associated with ill health eg. depression
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Who are the most impacted populations with precarious works?
* Women * Youth * New Immigrants * Racialized Minorities * Persons with Disabilities * Persons with Lower Education - insecurity is not randomly distributed - the influence of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, etc. on the SDOH
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Who does "flexibility" mostly benefits
“flexibility” mostly benefits high-skilled/educated workers
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What are the key dimensions of a "good" job
1. Secure – Permanent With Benefits 2. Addresses Workplace Injuries 3. Control–Autonomy At Work 4. Opportunities For Self-development (Paid) – Allows For Advancement (eg. conferences) 5. Free Time – Vacation, Limit Work Taken Home, Etc. 6. Work-Life Balance – Time Stress (e.g. Child And Elder Care) 7. Attention To Social Aspects Of Job (Positive and Negative)
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Key dimensions of work-related health
Job strain Effort-reward imbalance Organizational justice (eg. good boss, manager) Work hours Status inconsistency (education is much higher than what is required/needed) Precarious work
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Work and Health: What Should Be Done? Research and Education
Research and Education * More KT re: link between precarious employment and health
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Work and Health: What Should Be Done? Cultural Change
Cultural Change * More employer social accountability
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Work and Health: What Should Be Done? Institutional Change
Institutional Change * Free trade vs. fair trade (think about the impact on people)
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Work and Health: What Should Be Done? Power and Equity
Power and Equity * Address that those already economically marginalized are disproportionately impacted by “flexible” workplace strategies * How to ensure the ppl most vulnerable are still treated fairly
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Work and Health: What Should Be Done? Policy and Legislation
Policy and Legislation * Increased minimum wage * Incentives to hire permanent staff * Access to training opportunities, EI, pension plans * Occupational health for well-being vs reducing injury/illness
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Policy Implications * Support working life so demands and rewards are balanced * Improve conditions in high-strain jobs * Collective and organized action (unionization) as means to balance power between employers and employees

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