The impact of socio-political upheaval: Russia and Eastern Europe -- Precarious employment in low and middle income countries -- Downsizing, restructuring and 'survivor disease' -- Interactions of work and health: an economic perspective -- Gender perspectives on employment and health -- Impacts of climate change on working people -- Social inequalities in health in older people or people after retirement -- Social inequalities in the transition from work to retirement -- From national labor, economic and social policies to individual working conditions: multilevel concepts, evidence and challenges -- The role of international organizations -- The social distribution of occupational hazards -- Occupational noise -- Shift work -- Long working hours -- Under- and over-employment -- Physical activity at work -- Job insecurity -- Job intensity: evidence from high income countries -- Job intensity: evidence from middle and low income countries -- Impact of digitalization on work and employment -- Early life conditions and critical employment trajectories -- Demand-control-support -- Effort-reward imbalance -- Organizational injustice -- Job demands and resources -- Psychosocial safety climate -- Social conflicts and offense to self -- Work-life balance: Definitions, Causes, and Consequences -- Job interventions for improvement of management by means of art experiences -- Organizational-level interventions -- Financial gains, possibilities and limitations of improving occupational health at the company level -- Health economic evaluation of workplace health promotion -- Stress disequilibrium -- Regenerative physiology counteracting damaging effects of long-lasting energy mobilisation -- Work stress and autonomic nervous system activity -- Work stress, immune and inflammatory markers -- Work stress and health-adverse behaviors.

This handbook provides a summary of more than two decades of international research on one of the leading theoretical models of work stress research; effort-reward imbalance. Consisting of 3 parts and 8 sub-parts, this essential reference work deals with theory and methods, review of research evidence on health effects, new findings from Asia, Australia, and Latin America, and model extensions and interventions. This book has a selective theoretical focus, and the large majority of chapters is restricted to the meso-level of organizational research. With a combination of research evidence derived from macro-, meso- and micro-level investigations, the inclusion of a broad spectrum of material and psychosocial occupational stressors, and with its unique focus on socioeconomic determinants this handbook offers a valuable source of information to a broad audience interested in occupational health science.