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.