Sick From Work - The Body in Employment

List of contents

1. The Body and the Relation of Employment. Part 1. Making the Body Fit for Employment. 2. Fit Bodies: Selected by Nature or Social Process? 3. Docile Bodies: The Making of the Worker. Part 2. Ill at Work and Off Sick. 4. Vulnerable Bodies: Illness in the Workplace. 5. Bodies Off Sick: Moral Ambiguities and how they are Resolved. 6. Bodies Off Sick: The Control of Time. Part 3. Bodies at Risk of Disease and Injury. 7. Bodies at Risk: Explaining Workers’ Risk Behaviour. 8. Bodies at Risk: Can Jobs Still Kill? 9. Bodies at Risk: Weak Labour Markets may Damage your Health.

Summary

First published in 1999, this aims to shift the balance from current concerns about individual behaviour and its health effects to an understanding of the social factors that shape both circumstances and behaviour conducive to health.

Additional text

’This is a highly original and important book. Its distinctive approach...offers fascinating insights into the relationship of employment, work and health. It is a definitive volume which will be invaluable to employer and policy interests, occupational health specialists and sociologists, and indeed to all who are interested in the world of work - in effect, all of us.’ Professor Mildred Blaxter, University of East Anglia, UK ’A fascinating book...Some of the book’s issues should certainly make OH nurses re-examine their attitudes and policies towards sickness absence management.’ Occupational Health

Product details

• Authors: Paul Bellaby, Bellaby Paul
• Assisted by: Paul Bellaby (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781138345508
• ISBN: 978-1-138-34550-8
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: Routledge Revivals; Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, Personal & public health, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Sociology: work & labour, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Personal and public health / health education, Sociology: work and labour