Health and Work: Critical Perspectives

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: Critical Perspectives on Health and Work....Pages 1-20
Women and Domestic Labour: Setting a Research Agenda....Pages 21-34
Paid and Unpaid Work in Mental Health: Towards a New Perspective....Pages 35-53
The Wellbeing of Carers: An Occupational Health Concern....Pages 54-70
Health and Work in the Sex Industry....Pages 71-85
Death and Injury at Work: A Sociological Approach....Pages 86-106
Why We Still Have ‘Old’ Epidemics and ‘Endemics’ in Occupational Health: Policy and Practice Failures and Some Possible Solutions....Pages 107-126
Tracking the Invisible: Scientific Indicators of the Health Hazards in Women’s Work....Pages 127-142
In the Hand or in the Head? Contextualising the Debate about Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI)....Pages 143-160
Zones of Danger, Zones of Safety: Disabled People’s Negotiations around Sickness and the Sick Record....Pages 161-179
Selling Sex, Giving Care:The Construction of AIDS as a Workplace Hazard....Pages 180-197
Postmodern Reflections: Deconstructing ‘Risk’, ‘Health’ and ‘Work’....Pages 198-219
Occupational Health Issues and Strategies: A View from Primary Health Care....Pages 220-237
Participatory Approaches in Occupational Health Research....Pages 238-252
Back Matter....Pages 253-258