WORKING ON THE EDGE:

I-O PSYCHOLOGY AND MARGINALIZED WORKERS

Panel Discussion

Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 22nd Annual Conference

New York, NY, April 28, 2007

 

Bernardo M. Ferdman (Chair)

Josep M. Blanch

Ellen Ernst Kossek

Dov Eden

References (from Ellen Kossek)

Kossek, E. E.,  Huber-Yoder, M., Castellino, D. Lerner, J. 1997.  The working poor: Locked out of careers and the organizational mainstream? Academy of Management Executive. Issue on Careers in the Twenty-first Century, (Winter): 76-92.

Kossek, E., Meece, D. R., Barratt, P,  Prince, E. 2005. U.S. Latino migrant farm workers:  Managing acculturative stress and conserving work-family resources.  In S. Poelmans (Ed.) pp. 47-70. International and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Work and Family.  Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum Press.

Kossek, Ellen Ernst. 2000. Learning from the working poor and welfare reform: Paradoxes in promoting employability, In Relational Wealth: A New Model for Employment in the 21st Century.  (Carrie Leana & Denise Rousseau, Editors).  Oxford, England: Oxford Press, pp. 183-198.

Huber, M. S. & Kossek, E. E. 1999. Community distress and welfare exits: The under-examined factor for families in the United States. International Journal of Community, Work, and Family, 2 (2): 205-18.

Kossek, E. E., Huber, M. Lerner, J. 2003. Sustaining economic and psychological well-being of mothers on public assistance: Individual deficit and social structural accounts.  Journal of Vocational Behavior, 62: 155-175. Nominated for annual Rosabeth Moss Kanter award for excellence in work family research.

References (from Josep Blanch)

Beck, U. (1999). Un nuevo mundo feliz. La precariedad del trabajo en la era de la globalización. Barcelona: Paidós.

Beck, U. (2002). La sociedad del riesgo global. Madrid: Siglo XXI.

Benavides, F.G. and Benach, J. (1999). Precarious employment and health-Related outcomes in the European Union.  Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities.

Blanch, J. M. (2006). Estudio internacional sobre la calidad de la experiencia laboral en el capitalismo flexible. In X. Díaz, L. Godoy, A. Stecher and J. P Toro (Coords.). Trabajo, identidad y vínculo social. Reflexiones y experiencias en el capitalismo flexible (pp. 75-107). Santiago de Chile:  CEM.

Blanch, J. M. (2003). Trabajar en la sociedad informacional. In J. M. Blanch (Coord.). Teoría de las relaciones laborales. Vol. II. Desafíos. (pp. 11-197). Barcelona: UOC.

Boltanski, L. and Chiapello, E. (1999). El nuevo espíritu del capitalismo. Madrid: Akal.

Carnoy, M. (2001). El trabajo flexible en la era de la información. Madrid: Alianza.

Castel, R. (1997). Las metamorfosis de la cuestión social.: una crónica del salariado. Buenos Aires: Paidós.

European Foundation (1998).  Precarious employment and working conditions in the European Union. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities.

European Foundation (2001).  Flexibility and working conditions: A qualitative and comparative study in seven EU member states. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities.

Parent-Thirion, A, Fernández, E, Hurley and J., Vermeylen, G. (2007). Fourth European Working Conditions Survey. Dublin: European Foundation.

Weiler, A. (2006 a). Annual review of working conditions in the EU: 2005–2006. Dublin: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.

Weiler, A. (2006 b). Quality of work and employment 2006. Dublin: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.

Vermeylen, G. and Hurley, J. (2007). Varieties of flexicurity: Reflections on key elements of flexibility and security. Dublin: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.

 

WEBSITES

·        Union Flex study: http://www.worklifeflexibility.msu.edu/

·        NIH grocery worker study: http://wfsupport.psy.pdx.edu/

·        European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions:

o       Home page: http://eurofound.europa.eu

o       Publications: http://eurofound.europa.eu/publications

o       European Working Conditions Surveys: http://eurofound.europa.eu/ewco/surveys

·        International Labor Organization: http://www.ilo.org

·        Beyond Grey Pinstripes (preparing MBAs for social and environmental stewardship): http://www.beyondgreypinstripes.org/index.cfm

·        Report of the APA Task Force on Socioeconomic Status (2007): http://www.apa.org/pi/ses/homepage.html

·        APA Resolution on Poverty and Socioeconomic Status (and other documents from APA’s Urban Initiatives): http://www.apa.org/pi/urban/

·        Instituto Ethos (Brazil): http://www.ethos.org.br/DesktopDefault.aspx?Alias=EthosEnglish&Lang=en-US&init

·        United Nations Millennium Development Goals: http://www.undp.org/mdg/

·        Undocumented Immigrants: Facts and Figures (Urban Institute): http://www.urban.org/publications/1000587.html