The background for the international research conference “Health Hazards and Challenges in the New Working Life” was the emerging questions concerning the health and social effects of the rapid changes in the labour market leading to increasing long-term unemployment, temporary employment and irregular employment contracts.

Unemployment and Downsizing.- Opening Address.- A Social Scientist for and in the Real World: An Introduction to the Address by Professor Marie Jahoda.- Unemployment and Mental Health: Hazards and Challenges of Psychology in the Community.- Unemployment and Health Care Utilization.- Unemployment and Social Networks among Young Persons in Sweden.- On Empowerment and Health Effects of Temporary Alternative Empolyment.- Empowerment, Learning and Social Action during Unemployment.- Repeated Downsizing: Attitudes and Well-being for Surviving Personnel in a Swedish Retail Company.- Flexibilization and Stress.- Work Life and Organizational Changes and How They are Perceived by the Employees.- Enclosure in Human Services: The Panopticon of Dentistry.- The Impact of Organizational Changes on the Psychological Contract and Attitudes Towards Work in Four Health Care Organizations.- Alternative Work Arrangements.- Telework in Perspective — New Challenges to Occupational Health and Safety.- The Relationship between Precarious Employment and Patterns of Occupational Violence.- New Working Time Arrangements, Health and Well-being.- Determinants of the Attitude to Work and Subjective Health.- Emotional Exhaustion Depersonalization and Health in Two Swedish Human Service Organizations.- Opportunities and Constraints in the Labour Market.- The Polarization of the Labour Market and the Exclusion of Vulnerable Groups.- The Quality of Work: The Work-Family Interface.- From School to Work in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s for Early School Leavers.- Work Values and Early Work Socialization among Nurses and Engineers.- Occupational Hazards in the Informal Sector — A Global Perspective.