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The Wheel of Work and the Sustainable Livelihoods Index (SL-I)

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  • Stuart Carr

    (School of Psychology, College of Humanities & Social Sciences, Massey University, Auckland 1311, New Zealand)

  • Veronica Hopner

    (School of Psychology, College of Humanities & Social Sciences, Massey University, Auckland 1311, New Zealand)

  • Ines Meyer

    (School of Management Studies, University of Cape Town, Cape Town 7701, South Africa)

  • Annamaria Di Fabio

    (Department of Education, Languages, Intercultures, Literatures and Psychology, University of Florence, 50121 Florence, Italy)

  • John Scott

    (APT Metrics, Westport, CT 06838, USA)

  • Ingo Matuschek

    (Sociological Institute, University of Applied Labour Studies of the Federal Employment Agency, 68163 Mannheim, Germany)

  • Denise Blake

    (School of Health, Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand)

  • Mahima Saxena

    (Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, NE 68182, USA)

  • Raymond Saner

    (Centre for Socioeconomic Development, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland)

  • Lichia Saner-Yiu

    (Centre for Socioeconomic Development, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland)

  • Gustavo Massola

    (Insituto de Psicologia, University of Sao Paolo, São Paulo 05508-070, Brazil)

  • Stephen Grant Atkins

    (Space Systems Consulting Ltd., Dunedin 9010, New Zealand)

  • Walter Reichman

    (Baruch College, State University of New York, Albany, NY 12246, USA)

  • Jeffrey Saltzman

    (OrgVitality, Westchester County, NY 10551, USA)

  • Ishbel McWha-Hermann

    (Business School, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9YL, UK)

  • Charles Tchagneno

    (Laboratoire de Psychologie, Universite de Franche-Comte, 25030 Besançon, France)

  • Rosalind Searle

    (Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK)

  • Jinia Mukerjee

    (MBS School of Business, 34080 Montpellier, France)

  • David Blustein

    (Department of Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02459, USA)

  • Sakshi Bansal

    (Youth Ambassador, 34185 Paris, France)

  • Ingrid K. Covington

    (Centre of Psychology at Work, 1110 Brussels, Belgium)

  • Jeff Godbout

    (Global Organisation for Humanitarian Work Psychology, Virginia Beach, VA 23450, USA)

  • Jarrod Haar

    (School of Psychology, College of Humanities & Social Sciences, Massey University, Auckland 1311, New Zealand)

Abstract

The concept of a sustainable livelihood affords protection from crises and protects people, including future generations. Conceptually, this paper serves as a study protocol that extends the premises of decent work to include and integrate criteria that benefit people, planet, and prosperity. Existing measures of sustainability principally serve organisations and governments, not individual workers who are increasingly looking for ‘just transitions’ into sustainable livelihoods. Incorporating extant measurement standards from systems theory, vocational psychology, psychometrics, labour and management studies, we conceptualise a classification of livelihoods, criteria for their sustainability, forming a study protocol for indexing these livelihoods, a set of theory-based propositions, and a pilot test of this context-sensitive model.

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  • Stuart Carr & Veronica Hopner & Ines Meyer & Annamaria Di Fabio & John Scott & Ingo Matuschek & Denise Blake & Mahima Saxena & Raymond Saner & Lichia Saner-Yiu & Gustavo Massola & Stephen Grant Atkins, 2025. "The Wheel of Work and the Sustainable Livelihoods Index (SL-I)," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 17(14), pages 1-20, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:17:y:2025:i:14:p:6295-:d:1698198
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