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Introduction: Critical Perspectives on Health and Work

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Traditional understandings of the relationship between health and work have been called into question in what has variously been termed late modern, high modern and postmodern society. Conventional models, developed in the context of western industrial societies, are based on notions of work that fail to account for the experience of growing numbers of individuals. They also draw on ideas about the nature of science that have been challenged from a number of perspectives. Finally, they assume modes of political organisation which can no longer be taken for granted in societies where risks are often global and yet individuals’ experience of work may be more and more fragmented.

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Daykin, N. (1999). Introduction: Critical Perspectives on Health and Work. In: Daykin, N., Doyal, L. (eds) Health and Work. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27625-7_1

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