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The Rise of Mental Vulnerability at Work : A Socio-Historical and Cultural Analysis / Ari Väänänen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Väänänen, Ari, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Employees--Mental health.
- Employees.
- Work--Psychological aspects.
- Work.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (251 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol, England : Policy Press, an imprint of Bristol University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- Since the 1960s a major mental health crisis has emerged among Western working populations. Through a study spanning several decades, this book uses an original framework to capture the history and developments of mental vulnerability in working life.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- The Rise of Mental Vulnerability at Work: A Socio-Historical and Cultural Analysis
- Copyright information
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1 Background: mental health crisis in the labour market
- Mental health crisis of late modernity
- The growing concern on mental fitness
- The need for rethinking mental health in the context of work
- 2 Mental vulnerability and the moving target of mental health
- The perspective of mental vulnerability
- The historical nature of social character
- The cultural nature of mental health understanding
- The moving target of mental health
- The case of Finland
- 3 The vulnerability of work
- Burdening of work
- Precarious work as an engine of vulnerability
- 4 The vulnerability of cultural existence
- The shift towards psychological approaches
- Medicalization and mental health at work
- 5 Mental vulnerability in the historical context
- Mental vulnerabilities of the past
- Shifting epidemiologic boundaries
- The birth of autonomous subjectivity
- 6 The change in the understanding of occupational health
- Crafting stress-fit subjects in scientific forums
- Work-related mental health in the media discussion
- The entry of the reflexive character in occupational healthcare
- 7 The historical pathways of mental vulnerability in different occupations
- The shifting role of mental health problems in the insurance sector
- The transition of the teachers' behavioural structure
- Social work as a form of emotional management
- 8 The current dynamics of vulnerability at work
- Tied autonomy and challenged wellbeing among knowledge workers
- Social character formation among young employees
- The gendering of mental vulnerability at work
- 9 Mental vulnerability as a social practice
- Developing awareness - advancing vulnerability?.
- The dual engines of mental vulnerability
- 10 The temporal nature of mental health at work
- The key elements of mental vulnerability
- Parsing mental vulnerability in different disciplines
- Wellness medicine
- Mental health as a ritual
- Appendix: Original publications of the research group
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4473-5943-7
- 1-4473-5945-3
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