Overview
Provides a cross-disciplinary analysis of the emergence and development of work stress and mental suffering at work
Combines work by leading scholars coming from various countries which have been heavily influenced by work stress discourses
Contests the notion that stress is an individual and a purely subjective problem
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This edited collection explores different strands of social constructionist theory and methods to provide a critique of the prevailing discourse of work stress, and introduces a radical new approach to conceptualizing suffering at work. Over the last three decades, stress and other forms of suffering at work (including burn-out, bullying, and issues relating to work-life balance) have emerged as important social and medical problems in Western countries. However, stress is a contested category, not (as many argue) a well-defined clinical, biological and psychological state that affects people in the same way in different cultures and at different times. Thus, a social constructionist perspective helps to shed light on new approaches to prevention and interventions of work stress. This book will be of great interest for students and scholars of sociology, anthropology, social history, history of science, psychology, communication and management, as well as to practitioners (doctors and psychologists), policy makers and employers.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Marc Loriol is Researcher at the Institute of the Institutions et Dynamiques Historiques de l'Économie et de la Société (IDHE.S) at Panthéon-Sorbonne University, France.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Stress and Suffering at Work
Book Subtitle: The Role of Culture and Society
Editors: Marc Loriol
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05876-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-05875-3Published: 19 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-05876-0Published: 05 February 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 218
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Work, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Emotion, Sociology of Culture