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From stress to resistance: Challenging the capitalist underpinnings of mental unhealth in work and organizations

Torkild Thanem, Hadar Elraz Orcid Logo

International Journal of Management Reviews, Volume: 24, Issue: 4, Pages: 577 - 598

Swansea University Author: Hadar Elraz Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1111/ijmr.12293

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The worldwide spread of work-related mental unhealth suggests that this is a major problem affecting organizations and employees on a global scale. In this paper, we therefore provide a thematic review of the literatures that address this issue in management and organization studies (MOS) and relate...

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Published in: International Journal of Management Reviews
ISSN: 1460-8545 1468-2370
Published: Wiley 2022
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59703
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Abstract: The worldwide spread of work-related mental unhealth suggests that this is a major problem affecting organizations and employees on a global scale. In this paper, we therefore provide a thematic review of the literatures that address this issue in management and organization studies (MOS) and related fields. While these literatures examine how employee mental health is affected by organizational and occupational structures and managed by organizations and employees, they have paid relatively little attention to the capitalist labour relations which underpin the unhealthy conditions of contemporary working life. They have paid even less attention to how these conditions may be resisted. To help future scholarship in MOS challenge this state of affairs, we draw on some of the most basic but central notions of exploitation, alienation and resistance in classic and current critiques of capitalism, optimistic that this may help strengthen the field's capacity to confront mental unhealth in settings of work and organization.
College: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Funders: Swedish Research Council: 2015-01523
Issue: 4
Start Page: 577
End Page: 598

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