ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author presents a brief history of technological and other related developments in the industry and company, and describes the work environment of the company in order to highlight the context within which stress and ill-health take place. After giving an overview of industry characteristics and details of the sample, he undertakes a preliminary analysis of achieved and ascribed status characteristics in the study. The author examines the determinants of negative work experience and describe occupational and gender differences in alienating work characteristics. The regression model shows the total effects of ascribed and achieved statuses, occupational position, and length of time in the one position on alienating work. The alienating effects of management control over task activities are reported more by women than men in the study, but the differences are moderate. Factory women are likely to satisfy fewer needs at work as the work role is most likely not their sole important role in life.
