The excluded jobs in work-organizational psychology

The Work-Organizational Psychology (WOP) has done a great advance in the understanding of the people at the work context; nevertheless, WOP has put aside the research and intervention of jobs outside formal organizations. This study shows some of the historical factors that took the WOP to focus almost exclusively on jobs inside organizations and “forget” other work categories (i.e. informal jobs, low-quality jobs, self employment, employment hardship and underemployment). It is discussed that this attention on organizational jobs will be against both the fully psychological understanding of the workers' conditions and the actual labour market in the non-industrialized economies.