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

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, Walter Reichman, Jeffrey Saltzman, Ishbel McWha-Hermann, Charles Tchagneno, Rosalind Searle, Jinia Mukerjee, David Blustein, Sakshi Bansal, Ingrid K. Covington, Jeff Godbout and Jarrod Haar
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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

Sustainability, 2025, vol. 17, issue 14, 1-20

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.

Keywords: wheel of work; sustainable livelihoods; decent work; sustainable livelihoods; sustainable development goals; SDGs; sustainability; triple bottom line; ESG (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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