Work activities and musculoskeletal discomforts amongst active older Albertans on alternative employment trajectories

Work ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon B. Doan ◽  
Jennifer L. Copeland ◽  
Lesley A. Brown ◽  
Jeff T. Newman ◽  
D. Shane Hudson
Author(s):  
Ann Kwak ◽  
Doug Haaland ◽  
Renee Rozek ◽  
Neil D. Christiansen

1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamao Matsui ◽  
Shin-Ichi Tsukamoto

1970 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reginald Carter
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Author(s):  
Liubov Vetoshkina ◽  
Yrjö Engeström ◽  
Annalisa Sannino

By skillfully shaping and producing objects human beings externalize and make real their future-oriented imaginaries and visions. Material objects created by skilled performance make human lifeworlds durable. From the point of view of history making, wooden boat building is a particularly rich domain of skilled performance. This chapter is based on two research sites, one in Finland and the other in Russia. The analysis is divided into four layers or threads of history making, namely personal history, the history of the wooden boat community, the political history of the nations and their relations, and the history of the boats themselves as objects of boat-building activity. The chapter ends by discussing our findings and their implications for the understanding of skilled performance and history making in work activities and organizations.


Author(s):  
C. L. Comolli ◽  
L. Bernardi ◽  
M. Voorpostel

AbstractInformed by the life course perspective, this paper investigates whether and how employment and family trajectories are jointly associated with subjective, relational and financial wellbeing later in life. We draw on data from the Swiss Household Panel which combines biographical retrospective information on work, partnership and childbearing trajectories with 19 annual waves containing a number of wellbeing indicators as well as detailed socio-demographic and social origin information. We use sequence analysis to identify the main family and work trajectories for men and women aged 20–50 years old. We use OLS regression models to assess the association between those trajectories and their interdependency with wellbeing. Results reveal a joint association between work and family trajectories and wellbeing at older age, even net of social origin and pre-trajectory resources. For women, but not for men, the association is also not fully explained by proximate (current family and work status) determinants of wellbeing. Women’s stable full-time employment combined with traditional family trajectories yields a subjective wellbeing premium, whereas childlessness and absence of a stable partnership over the life course is associated with lower levels of financial and subjective wellbeing after 50 especially in combination with a trajectory of weak labour market involvement. Relational wellbeing is not associated with employment trajectories, and only weakly linked to family trajectories among men.


2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (8) ◽  
pp. 490-496
Author(s):  
Joanne Garside ◽  
John Stephenson ◽  
Jean Hayles ◽  
Nichola Barlow ◽  
Graham Ormrod

Background: Nurse shortage is an international issue that has adverse effects on health and the quality of care of whole populations. Aims: The study aimed to explore attrition experienced by return-to-practice students attending higher education institutions in England. Methods: A mixed-methods design, involving questionnaires (n=114) and in-depth interviews (n=20), was used. Findings: Just over half (52%) of respondents left nursing after ≥10 years. Most of these (84%) stayed in alternative employment during their break from nursing. There were two distinct reasons for leaving nursing: the inability to maintain a positive work/life balance and a lack of opportunity for career advancement while retaining nursing registration. Respondents reflected positively on their nursing experience yet frequently reported significant personal or professional incidents prompting their decision to leave. Conclusion: The reasons nurses leave are complex. Professional bodies and managers need to work together to address concerns many nurses have during their careers that lead to them deciding to leave the profession.


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