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The rise of work stress in a therapy culture

Speaker: David Wainwright
12 June 2004

We are facing an epidemic of work stress. But why should problems at work which previously led to industrial disputes and political activity now be experienced as a cause of physical or mental illness? The workshop will consider the social, historical and cultural changes that produced this phenomenon, and explore the consequences of adopting the passive identity of 'work stress victim'.

David Wainwright is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Bath Spa University College. Before this he spent five years researching the work stress phenomenon, first at Kent University and then at Bristol University. Author (with Michael Calnan) of Work Stress: The Making of a Modern Epidemic (Buckingham: Open University Press, 2002).

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