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摘要

Over recent decades, stress and other forms of suffering at work (including burnout, bullying and issues relating to work-life balance) have emerged as important social and medical problems in western countries. However, stress is a contested category. The editor of this publication argues that it is not (as many contend) a well-defined clinical, biological and psychological state that affects people in the same way in different cultures and at different times. Instead, in this edited collection he weaves different strands of social constructionist theory and methods to provide a critique of the current discourse about work stress and puts forward and explores a radical new approach to conceptualising "suffering" at work including stress.