ABSTRACT
This chapter is based primarily on a paper coauthored with Wojciech Zaborowski, Krystyna Janicka, Bogdan W. Mach, Valeriy Khmelko, Kazimierz Słomczynski, Cory Heyman, and Bruce Podobnik, published in the Social Psychology Quarterly (SPQ) (Kohn et al. 2000). I am also including a more extended history of the concept, the substantive complexity of work, that I wrote for an earlier version of the paper but removed from the paper for reasons of space and the journal coeditor’s preference. She thought the paper more effective when leaner, and I reluctantly concluded that—as a standalone article in a journal—she was probably right. For this book, however, I do think that the history of a key concept, which has played a crucial role in past chapters and which I will utilize again in the following chapters for further analyses of the nonemployed, should be of interest to readers.
