
The Work Cure
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The idea that work, including the enthusiastic search for work, is integral to mental health has become a key ideological tenet of post-industrial capitalism. By re-introducing critical and political perspectives to this agenda from those who have witnessed this new psychological government at first hand, The Work Cure demonstrates that resistance is possible, and in doing so offers hope of a more emancipatory psychology -- William Davies, author of The Happiness Industry; Most of us have to sell our labour to survive. What s worse, we also have to listen as a growing army of (well-paid) professionals explain that work is essential to health and wellbeing. This much-needed collection of critical voices (provocative, political, surreal, despairing) provides a forensic interrogation of the imposition of work and exposes the creeping tyranny of wellbeing. With contributions from academics, psy-professionals and activists, this book unsettles tired platitudes about meaningful work and instead focuses on the real consequences of the organisation of labour: work s colonisation of time and energy, to the extent that employers are not so much bosses as owners a trend enabled by the marriage of work discipline and therapy culture analysed in chapters by David Frayne and Recovery in the Bin. Introna and Casagrande s compelling account of the anti-productivist force of disability also describes the power and possibilities of resistance: It s up to us to recognise our misfitting as a source of restored dignity and connect our struggles through the refusal of work. This essential book makes a powerful, interdisciplinary contribution to the politics, practice and potential of work refusal. -- Lynne Friedli, researcher and activist; Some books are useful, and some, like this one, which shows the misery that is caused by the use of psychological and welfare apparatuses instrumentally in the service of an austerity agenda, are indispensable. The contributors together provide a vital resource for understanding how neoliberalism gets inside all of us and, crucially, into the lives of those who should be offered solidarity, rather than subjected to coercion. -- Ian Parker, Emeritus Professor of Management, University of LeicesterMore details
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