Implications of Contemporary Work Quality for Disparities in Healthy Aging
Implications of Contemporary Work Quality for Disparities in Healthy Aging
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211151500
- ISBN
- 9798382591551
- DDC
- 301
- 서명/저자
- Implications of Contemporary Work Quality for Disparities in Healthy Aging
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 160 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Engelman, Michal.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약Most people will spend a significant proportion of their lives engaged in some form of paid labor: as such, the implications of work quality have far-reaching and complex consequences for worker health, doubly so when we consider the growing gap between good and bad jobs in the United States. Although the relationship between work characteristics and health measures has been well-documented, prior studies of work and health are limited in-so-far as they 1) tend to focus on the isolated effects of a given characteristic on a given health outcome and 2) tend to focus on a single dimension of health-e.g., self-reported health, measures of depression, etc.-rather than examining whether different dimensions of health have are differentially impacted by certain work characteristics. Given that work characteristics endemic to high- and low-quality jobs tend to cluster, a typological approach may provide new insights into the work-health relationship. Further, studies of work and health do not always take into account how work as an institution is gendered and racialized, and as such overlook both how race and gender inform baseline access to high quality jobs, and how a racialized and gendered culture of work can produce differential health outcomes regardless of job quality. My aims for this dissertation are threefold: first, I aim to establish that declining work quality has negative health implications for the entire population across numerous dimensions of health, which over time may compound into large health disparities. Second, I aim to highlight how the relationship between work quality and health must be situated within the broader social contexts of race, gender and family; these contexts meaningfully shape both differential access to quality work and the relative returns (or insults) to health as a result of that work. Third, I make the make the case that the combined forces of technological advancement, loosening of labor protections, globalization and the Great Recession have radically reshaped typologies of work quality, and that if we want to ensure that today's young adults are still working in good health in old age, we must begin by taking a close look at the ways in which they are working now.To that end, Chapter 1 examines changes in baseline Quality Work Life Expectancy, or QWLE (livable wages, access to a pension and healthcare) across several U.S. cohorts, and how these changes vary at the axes of race and gender. Prior work has emphasized changes in Working Life Expectancy (WLE); I argue that identifying changes in WLE are meaningless for policy makers without the context of QWLE. That is, working longer solves nothing if people are working in low-quality and health-harming jobs.Chapter 2 turns the focus to the health implications of contemporary configurations of job quality and the variation that occurs when stratified by race and gender. Further, this chapter emphasizes the importance of considering the different pathways by which job quality may shape health, beginning in young adulthood: specifically, I find a stronger relationship between configurations of job quality and deleterious health behaviors than self-reported health. This study builds on the existing literature examining work quality and health by situating work quality within the constraining forces of gender and race, highlighting how these forces inform both access to higher quality work and the returns to health from that work.Chapter 3 takes an even more detailed dive into the relationship between health and contemporary job quality by examining gendered variation in contemporary configurations of job quality and family formation, and their implications for self-reported and physiological stress. Although there is ample literature examining work and family and work and stress, they often exist separately-this study demonstrates the value in bringing these two lines of research into conversation. Additionally, I show that the configurations of job quality and family formation have different implications for stress depending on which measure of stress is used, which highlights the importance of treating health as a multifaceted construct.
- 일반주제명
- Sociology
- 일반주제명
- Demography
- 일반주제명
- Gender studies
- 일반주제명
- Aging
- 키워드
- Gender
- 키워드
- Race
- 키워드
- Work quality
- 기타저자
- The University of Wisconsin - Madison Sociology - LS
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-11B.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■650 4▼aGender studies
■650 4▼aAging
■653 ▼aGender
■653 ▼aHealth disparities
■653 ▼aRace
■653 ▼aSocial determinants
■653 ▼aWork quality
■653 ▼aWork-health relationship
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