The Gender and Work Technical Committee (TC) of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA) is responsible for this issue of the journal WORK. Since many of the authors come from the scholarly tradition of ergonomic analysis of work activity, we should explain that, in this context, the word “regulation” refers to the attempts made byworkers andworkers’ groups to manage job requirements and ...

Scholars have observed workers combining multiple work roles to earn a living cope with the vicissitudes of labor market. In studies creative markets, this trend broadening their skills is termed “occupational generalism”. Previous scholarship has focused on structural factors that push and pull into generalizing roles. But we lack an understanding subjective experience as generalist. I introdu...