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This chapter discusses the costs and benefits of emerging psychosocial characteristics of modern work life. It highlights some of the macrolevel political-economic implications of psychosocially healthy job redesign based on "new work organization" principles. Such work redesign processes normally occur at the level of the work station or work place but carry broader political-economic implications as well. The chapter claims that professionals who combine the humane well-being goals of public health professionals and psychological and sociological wisdom relating to working life and its effects have the necessary skills to allow them to take a leading role in developing humane alternative forms for workplace economic development in both the microlevel of the company and the macropolitical level. In a new form of work—here labeled conductive production—this knowledge is becoming central to the production process. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)