Working Bodies
Chronic Illness in the Canadian Workplace
1st Edition
Published on 4. July 2014
241 pages
978-0-7735-9181-3 (ISBN)
Description
An informative look at the experience of navigating the Canadian workplace while living with chronic illness.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Montreal, QC
Canada
Edition type
Digital original
File size
3,22 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7735-9181-3 (9780773591813)
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Sharon-Dale Stone | Valorie A. Crooks | Michelle Owen
Working Bodies
Chronic Illness in the Canadian Workplace
Book
05/2014
McGill-Queen's University Press
€154.50
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Person
Sharon-Dale Stone is professor and chair of sociology at Lakehead University. Valorie A. Crooks is associate professor in the Department of Geography at Simon Fraser University. Michelle Owen is associate professor in the Department of Disability Studies at the University of Winnipeg.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Figures
- Introduction: Chronic Illness in the Canadian Workplace
- PART ONE: CONFRONTING AND NEGOTIATING ATTITUDES
- Narrative Preface: Adam's Story
- 1 Portrayals of Fibromyalgia and Paid Work: Too Sick to Work?
- 2 Including and Accommodating Youth with Chronic Illness and Childhood Onset Disability in the Canadian Workplace
- 3 Navigating Chronic Injuries in the Workplace: Five Workers' Experiences with Systems and Relationships
- PART TWO: PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOMMODATING CHRONIC ILLNESS
- Narrative Preface: Julie's Story
- 4 Employers' Perspectives on Workplace Accommodation of Chronic Health Conditions
- 5 Supervisors' Perspectives on Work Accommodation for Chronically Ill Employees
- 6 Accommodation in the Context of Complex Chronic Illness
- PART THREE: EXPERIENCING CHRONIC ILLNESS IN THE WORKPLACE
- Narrative Preface: Corinne's Story
- 7 Chronic Illness among Immigrant Workers in Canada: An Overview of Existing Knowledge
- 8 On Being a Princess and a Problem: Negotiating Attitudinal Barriers to Chronic Illness in Canadian Universities
- 9 Chronic Illness and the Canadian Knowledge Worker: The Role of the Body and Embodiment in Shaping the Production of Academic Work
- PART FOUR: EPILOGUE
- Narrative Preface: Andrea's Story
- 10 Epilogue
- Contributors
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
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