Carl Walker & Ben Fincham 
Work and the Mental Health Crisis in Britain [EPUB ebook] 

Based on recent data gathered from employees and managers, Work
and the Mental Health Crisis in Britain challenges the cultural
maxim that work benefits people with mental health difficulties,
and illustrates how particular cultures and perceptions can
contribute to a crisis of mental well-being at work.

* Based on totally new data gathered from employees and managers
in the UK

* Presents a challenge to much of the conventional wisdom
surrounding work and mental health

* Questions the fundamental and largely accepted cultural maxim
that work is unquestionably good for people with mental health
difficulties

* Illustrates how particular cultures of work or perceptions of
the experience of work contribute to a crisis of mental well-being
at work

* Fills a need for an up-to-date, detailed work that explores the
ways that mental health and work experiences are constructed,
negotiated, constrained and at times, marginalised

* Written in a style that is detailed and informative for
academics and professionals who work in the mental health sphere,
but also accessible to interested lay readers

Mục lục

About the Contributors ix

Acknowledgements xi

Chapter 1 Introduction: Mental Health, Emotional

Well-Being and 21st Century Work 1

Chapter 2 Getting Britain Back to Work: A Policy Perspective 11

Chapter 3 Mental Health and Work-Experiences of Work
Ben Fincham, Carl Walker with Holly Easlick 39

Chapter 4 Techniques of Identity Governance and Resistance:

Formulating the Neoliberal Worker
Carl Walker, Ben Fincham with Josh Cameron 67

Chapter 5 Managing Mental Health in Organizations 97

Chapter 6 Work/Life Balance and the Individualized

Responsibility of the Neoliberal Worker 133

Chapter 7 Concluding Thoughts: Neoliberalism and the Shrine of Work 147

References 163

Index 179

Giới thiệu về tác giả

Carl Walker is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Applied
Social Sciences, University of Brighton. His research and teaching
interests include social inequality and mental distress, cultural
representations of mental health, and critical community approaches
to psychology. He is course leader for the MA in Community
Psychology and is currently engaged in work around employment,
personal debt and mental distress. His previous publications
include Depression and Globalisation (2007).

Ben Fincham is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University
of Sussex. He has been involved with developing projects on
‘mobilities’ and qualitative approaches to studying work in
unstable employment environments, and his current research focuses
on the complex relationship between work and mental health. He is
co-author of Mobile Methodologies (2010).