Book description
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
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).
