Vulnerable Workers: Psychosocial and Legal Issues

by Marilyn J. Davidson (Editor), Jill Earnshaw

Presents a comprehensive overview of various groups of vulnerable workers--disabled persons, AIDS sufferers, part-time employees, ethnic workers--in terms of both psychosocial and legal issues. The contributors investigate the psychological and social effects of the work on the employees themselves and highlight reactions of victims in terms of psychosocial health. Discusses stress counseling facilities at work and identifies the past, present and future role of the law in relation to vulnerable workers.

354 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 1991