Jouko Remes
Biographic Data
| ID | 374249 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jouko Remes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jouko |
| FAMILY NAME | Remes |
| SIGNATURE | REMES J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Finnish Institute of Occupational Health |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9109-1918 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Solidarity in disaster scholarship
Disaster scholarship purportedly promotes disaster risk reduction and resists disaster risk creation, thereby deeply engaging with transboundary existential risks, justice, and political power. It is thus a commitment to humanity, and for it to become truly equitable and just, solidarity must lie at its heart. In this paper we connect solidarity with knowledge production and assess the implications of disaster scholarship and the relationships on…
On Work and Disaster
The COVID-19 pandemic and the economic and social disruption that it precipitated have brought increased attention to the intersections of disaster studies and labor and working-class history. This historiographical essay lays out four places where disaster intersects with work: first, all disasters are workplace disasters for somebody; second, disasters create labor; third, disasters can reveal what always existed about labor, class relations, a…
Effectiveness of a workshop-based intervention to reduce bullying and violence at work: A 2-year quasi-experimental intervention study
No intervention effects on bullying and violence at work were observed. It may be worthwhile to develop the intervention further to focus more on supervisor and co-worker relationships and on psychosocial resources of work team
Catastrophe: Stories and Lessons from the Halifax Explosion . T. Joseph Scanlon; Rebuilding Halifax: A History of the Halifax Relief Commission . Barry Cahill
Volatile Organic Compounds in Finnish Office Environments in 2010–2019 and Their Relevance to Adverse Health Effects
We gathered recent (2010-2019) data on the VOC and formaldehyde levels in Finnish non-industrial indoor work environments. The data comprised 9789 VOC and 1711 formaldehyde samples collected from the indoor air of offices, schools, kindergartens, and healthcare offices. We assessed the health risks by comparing the measured concentrations to the health-based RW I/II and EU-LCI reference values. The concentrations of individual VOCs and formaldehy…
Does lung function predict the risk of disability pension? An 11-year register-based follow-up study
Obstructive or restrictive spirometry did not predict disability pension when dichotomized classified variables (normal compared to abnormal) were used. As continuous variables and when divided into quartiles, lower lung volumes showed an increase in the risk of disability pension. Physicians should take this into account when they use spirometry as a prognostic factor of work disability
The effects of counseling via a smartphone application on microentrepreneurs’ work ability and work recovery: A study protocol
Working Lives: Essays in Canadian Working-Class History by Craig Heron
In the late 1970s, Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, became a hotbed of the new labor history. One of the first graduate students to emerge from this Halifax School was Craig Heron, who over the course of his nearly forty-year career at York University has become not only one of Canada’s leading labor and working-class historians, but also — as recognized by his term as president of the Canadian Historical Association from 2007 to 200…
Border Flows: A Century of the Canadian-American Water Relationship
" Border Flows: A Century of the Canadian-American Water Relationship ." Canadian Historical Review, 99(4), pp. 683–684
Association between Four-Level Categorisation of Indoor Exposure and Perceived Indoor Air Quality
The aim of this study was to develop and test a tool for assessing urgency of indoor air quality (IAQ) measures. The condition of the 27 buildings were investigated and results were categorized. Statistical test studied the differences between the categories and the employees’ complaints about their work environment. To study the employees’ experiences of the work premises, a validated indoor air (IA) questionnaire was used. This study reveals a …
What We Talk About When We Talk About Africville
Scholarly and literary interest in African Canadians in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has centered on Africville, a segregated community eventually destroyed by urban renewal. But this emphasis on Africville obscures the normative experience of Black Haligonians, who historically lived in greater numbers in an integrated neighborhood. Using the stories of three Haligonians after the Halifax explosion of 1917, this article explores themes of the historica…
Slaughterhouse: Chicago’s Union Stock Yard and the World It Made by Dominic A. Pacyga
The giant stockyards and packinghouses of Chicago were places, Dominic A. Pacyga writes, that “introduced Americans to the modern,” where workers “ended not just the lives of pigs but the age-old relationship between meat and mankind” (x, 1). Pacyga, a longtime historian of Chicago and especially its Polish community, has produced a small but encyclopedic volume to describe this square mile where capitalists, workers, animals, and machinery toget…
"Beyond "natural-disasters-are-not-natural: The work of state and nature after the 2010 earthquake in Chile
Since the 1970s, human ecologists, geographers, Marxian political economists and others have insisted that there is no such thing as a 'natural' disaster. This assertion opened a space not only for exploring socioeconomic conditions that render marginalized populations vulnerable to natural hazards, but also for the formation of a field, the political ecology of hazards. A few political ecologists further interrogated the idea of a natural disast…
“Committed as Near Neighbors”: The Halifax Explosion and Border-Crossing People and Ideas
Popular accounts of the Halifax Explosion of 1917 have placed it in a resolutely nationalist context. But starting from the international ownerships and destinations of the ships that sparked it, the explosion was a transnational event. This article explores how people, money, and ideas crossed and recrossed the border. First, in-kind and monetary relief flowed quickly from the United States, Britain, and Newfoundland. Second, Halifax became a de…
Empire, Continent and Transnationalism in Canadian History: Essays in Honor of John Herd Thompson
Disaster Citizenship: Survivors, Solidarity, and Power in the Progressive Era
Stress-related eating, obesity and associated behavioural traits in adolescents: A prospective population-based cohort study
Stress-related eating is highly prevalent among 16-year-old girls and is associated with obesity as well as adverse dietary and other health behaviours among both genders, but intrauterine conditions are seemingly uninvolved. In terms of obesity prevention and future health, adolescents who use eating as a passive way of coping could benefit from learning healthier strategies for stress and weight management
Accumulation of lifestyle and psychosocial problems and persistence of adverse lifestyle over two-year follow-up among Finnish adolescents
It seems that lifestyle and psychosocial factors divide adolescents into distinct subgroups in which unhealthy lifestyle patterns remain between the ages of 16 and 18. This may indicate problems in other life areas and expose them to an increased risk of future health problems
Mi'kmaq in the Halifax Explosion of 1917: Leadership, Transience, and the Struggle for Land Rights
When a ship explosion in Halifax Harbor destroyed much of the surrounding area, among the devastated places was Kebeceque, an informal Mi'kmaw settlement in Dartmouth that had been under non-Native pressure for decades. The white owner of the land had long insisted that the Department of Indian Affairs remove the Mi'kmaq who camped on his property; the Mi'kmaq resisted these demands by relying on traditional practices of seasonal transience and i…
Jobs and Justice: Fighting Discrimination in Wartime Canada, 1939 – 1945
Book Review| May 01 2013 Jobs and Justice: Fighting Discrimination in Wartime Canada, 1939 – 1945 Jobs and Justice: Fighting Discrimination in Wartime Canada, 1939 – 1945. Patrias, Carmela. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012x + 249 pp., $24.95 (paper) Jacob Remes Jacob Remes SUNY Empire State College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2013) 10 (2): 127–128. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2071742 Views Icon…
The Day Wall Street exploded: A story of America in its first age of terror
Beverly Gage, New York, Oxford University Press, 2009, [x] +400 pp., $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-514824-4 When a cart full of dynamite exploded near the corner of Wall and Broad Streets in Manhat
The American Red Cross from Clara Barton to the New Deal
Social and Developmental Predictors of Optimism from Infancy to Early Adulthood
"Beyond "natural-disasters-are-not-natural: The work of state and nature after the 2010 earthquake in Chile
Since the 1970s, human ecologists, geographers, Marxian political economists and others have insisted that there is no such thing as a 'natural' disaster. This assertion opened a space not only for exploring socioeconomic conditions that render marginalized populations vulnerable to natural hazards, but also for the formation of a field, the political ecology of hazards. A few political ecologists further interrogated the idea of a natural disast…
Social and Developmental Predictors of Optimism from Infancy to Early Adulthood
The American Red Cross from Clara Barton to the New Deal
Solidarity in disaster scholarship
Disaster scholarship purportedly promotes disaster risk reduction and resists disaster risk creation, thereby deeply engaging with transboundary existential risks, justice, and political power. It is thus a commitment to humanity, and for it to become truly equitable and just, solidarity must lie at its heart. In this paper we connect solidarity with knowledge production and assess the implications of disaster scholarship and the relationships on…
What We Talk About When We Talk About Africville
Scholarly and literary interest in African Canadians in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has centered on Africville, a segregated community eventually destroyed by urban renewal. But this emphasis on Africville obscures the normative experience of Black Haligonians, who historically lived in greater numbers in an integrated neighborhood. Using the stories of three Haligonians after the Halifax explosion of 1917, this article explores themes of the historica…
Social and Developmental Predictors of Optimism from Infancy to Early Adulthood
Jobs and Justice: Fighting Discrimination in Wartime Canada, 1939 – 1945
Book Review| May 01 2013 Jobs and Justice: Fighting Discrimination in Wartime Canada, 1939 – 1945 Jobs and Justice: Fighting Discrimination in Wartime Canada, 1939 – 1945. Patrias, Carmela. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012x + 249 pp., $24.95 (paper) Jacob Remes Jacob Remes SUNY Empire State College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2013) 10 (2): 127–128. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2071742 Views Icon…
The Day Wall Street exploded: A story of America in its first age of terror
Beverly Gage, New York, Oxford University Press, 2009, [x] +400 pp., $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-514824-4 When a cart full of dynamite exploded near the corner of Wall and Broad Streets in Manhat
The American Red Cross from Clara Barton to the New Deal
Stress-related eating, obesity and associated behavioural traits in adolescents: A prospective population-based cohort study
Stress-related eating is highly prevalent among 16-year-old girls and is associated with obesity as well as adverse dietary and other health behaviours among both genders, but intrauterine conditions are seemingly uninvolved. In terms of obesity prevention and future health, adolescents who use eating as a passive way of coping could benefit from learning healthier strategies for stress and weight management
Accumulation of lifestyle and psychosocial problems and persistence of adverse lifestyle over two-year follow-up among Finnish adolescents
It seems that lifestyle and psychosocial factors divide adolescents into distinct subgroups in which unhealthy lifestyle patterns remain between the ages of 16 and 18. This may indicate problems in other life areas and expose them to an increased risk of future health problems
Mi'kmaq in the Halifax Explosion of 1917: Leadership, Transience, and the Struggle for Land Rights
When a ship explosion in Halifax Harbor destroyed much of the surrounding area, among the devastated places was Kebeceque, an informal Mi'kmaw settlement in Dartmouth that had been under non-Native pressure for decades. The white owner of the land had long insisted that the Department of Indian Affairs remove the Mi'kmaq who camped on his property; the Mi'kmaq resisted these demands by relying on traditional practices of seasonal transience and i…
“Committed as Near Neighbors”: The Halifax Explosion and Border-Crossing People and Ideas
Popular accounts of the Halifax Explosion of 1917 have placed it in a resolutely nationalist context. But starting from the international ownerships and destinations of the ships that sparked it, the explosion was a transnational event. This article explores how people, money, and ideas crossed and recrossed the border. First, in-kind and monetary relief flowed quickly from the United States, Britain, and Newfoundland. Second, Halifax became a de…
Empire, Continent and Transnationalism in Canadian History: Essays in Honor of John Herd Thompson
Disaster Citizenship: Survivors, Solidarity, and Power in the Progressive Era
"Beyond "natural-disasters-are-not-natural: The work of state and nature after the 2010 earthquake in Chile
Since the 1970s, human ecologists, geographers, Marxian political economists and others have insisted that there is no such thing as a 'natural' disaster. This assertion opened a space not only for exploring socioeconomic conditions that render marginalized populations vulnerable to natural hazards, but also for the formation of a field, the political ecology of hazards. A few political ecologists further interrogated the idea of a natural disast…
Slaughterhouse: Chicago’s Union Stock Yard and the World It Made by Dominic A. Pacyga
The giant stockyards and packinghouses of Chicago were places, Dominic A. Pacyga writes, that “introduced Americans to the modern,” where workers “ended not just the lives of pigs but the age-old relationship between meat and mankind” (x, 1). Pacyga, a longtime historian of Chicago and especially its Polish community, has produced a small but encyclopedic volume to describe this square mile where capitalists, workers, animals, and machinery toget…
Border Flows: A Century of the Canadian-American Water Relationship
" Border Flows: A Century of the Canadian-American Water Relationship ." Canadian Historical Review, 99(4), pp. 683–684
Association between Four-Level Categorisation of Indoor Exposure and Perceived Indoor Air Quality
The aim of this study was to develop and test a tool for assessing urgency of indoor air quality (IAQ) measures. The condition of the 27 buildings were investigated and results were categorized. Statistical test studied the differences between the categories and the employees’ complaints about their work environment. To study the employees’ experiences of the work premises, a validated indoor air (IA) questionnaire was used. This study reveals a …
What We Talk About When We Talk About Africville
Scholarly and literary interest in African Canadians in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has centered on Africville, a segregated community eventually destroyed by urban renewal. But this emphasis on Africville obscures the normative experience of Black Haligonians, who historically lived in greater numbers in an integrated neighborhood. Using the stories of three Haligonians after the Halifax explosion of 1917, this article explores themes of the historica…
Does lung function predict the risk of disability pension? An 11-year register-based follow-up study
Obstructive or restrictive spirometry did not predict disability pension when dichotomized classified variables (normal compared to abnormal) were used. As continuous variables and when divided into quartiles, lower lung volumes showed an increase in the risk of disability pension. Physicians should take this into account when they use spirometry as a prognostic factor of work disability
The effects of counseling via a smartphone application on microentrepreneurs’ work ability and work recovery: A study protocol
Working Lives: Essays in Canadian Working-Class History by Craig Heron
In the late 1970s, Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, became a hotbed of the new labor history. One of the first graduate students to emerge from this Halifax School was Craig Heron, who over the course of his nearly forty-year career at York University has become not only one of Canada’s leading labor and working-class historians, but also — as recognized by his term as president of the Canadian Historical Association from 2007 to 200…
Catastrophe: Stories and Lessons from the Halifax Explosion . T. Joseph Scanlon; Rebuilding Halifax: A History of the Halifax Relief Commission . Barry Cahill
Volatile Organic Compounds in Finnish Office Environments in 2010–2019 and Their Relevance to Adverse Health Effects
We gathered recent (2010-2019) data on the VOC and formaldehyde levels in Finnish non-industrial indoor work environments. The data comprised 9789 VOC and 1711 formaldehyde samples collected from the indoor air of offices, schools, kindergartens, and healthcare offices. We assessed the health risks by comparing the measured concentrations to the health-based RW I/II and EU-LCI reference values. The concentrations of individual VOCs and formaldehy…
On Work and Disaster
The COVID-19 pandemic and the economic and social disruption that it precipitated have brought increased attention to the intersections of disaster studies and labor and working-class history. This historiographical essay lays out four places where disaster intersects with work: first, all disasters are workplace disasters for somebody; second, disasters create labor; third, disasters can reveal what always existed about labor, class relations, a…
Effectiveness of a workshop-based intervention to reduce bullying and violence at work: A 2-year quasi-experimental intervention study
No intervention effects on bullying and violence at work were observed. It may be worthwhile to develop the intervention further to focus more on supervisor and co-worker relationships and on psychosocial resources of work team
Solidarity in disaster scholarship
Disaster scholarship purportedly promotes disaster risk reduction and resists disaster risk creation, thereby deeply engaging with transboundary existential risks, justice, and political power. It is thus a commitment to humanity, and for it to become truly equitable and just, solidarity must lie at its heart. In this paper we connect solidarity with knowledge production and assess the implications of disaster scholarship and the relationships on…
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