Work and Mental Health in Social Context

by Rudy Fenwick and Mark Tausig

Book Overview

Anyone who has ever had a job has probably experienced work-related stress at some point or another. For many workers, however, job-related stress is experienced every day and reaches more extreme levels. Four in ten American workers say that their jobs are "very" or "extremely" stressful. Job stress is recognized as an epidemic in the workplace, and its economic and health care costs are staggering: by some estimates over $ 1 billion per year...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461406242
• ISBN13: 9781461406242
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"