Trade Unions and Wellbeing: A longitudinal analysis of workers in the United Kingdom

工会是促进工作场所健康的重要合作伙伴。更高的收入、安全的工作场所、获得工作保障的机会，所有这些都有助于良好的心理和身体健康。此外，较短的工作时间对于压力的管理尤为重要。工会是促进这些工人利益的重要伙伴。尽管如此，在有关幸福的社会学和心理学文献中，工会的工作基本上是看不见的。使用纵向多水平回归模型，本项目调查了英国工会成员和压力症状之间的联系，并调查了这种联系随着时间的推移发生了多大程度的变化。1958年的国家儿童发展研究和1970年的英国队列研究使追踪过去50年两代工人的健康轨迹成为可能。采用多水平分析研究工会密度的变化对工会成员资格与压力症状之间的关系有何影响。从理论上讲，自20世纪70年代S以来发生的工会权力的下降改变了工会作为个人一级公共卫生机构的角色。这一项目有助于调查劳工组织如何为改善公共健康做出贡献的研究越来越多。

Trade Unions are a significant partner in the promotion of health at work. Higher incomes, safe workplaces, job security access, all contribute to good mental and physical functioning. In addition, shorter working hours are particularly important for the management of stress. Trade Unions are essential partners in the promotion of these worker interests. Despite this, the work of Trade Unions is largely invisible in the sociological and psychological literature on wellbeing. Using longitudinal multilevel regression models, this project investigates the association between membership of a Trade Union and stress symptoms in the UK and investigates to what extent this association changes over time. The 1958 National Child Development Study and 1970 British Cohort Study, make it possible to track the health trajectories of two generations of workers in the last 50 years. A multilevel analysis is employed to investigate what effect changes in Union density have had on the association between membership of a Trade Union and stress symptoms. It is theorised that the decline in Trade Union power that has taken place since the 1970's has altered the role of Trade Unions as public health institutions at the individual level. This project contributes to the growing body of research investigating the ways in which labour organisation contributes to improving public health.