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While significant research has been produced in the field of disability studies, little attention has been paid to experiences of chronic illness. Working Bodies emphasizes the workplace as an important site for understanding such experiences, as employment status has an enormous impact on social and economic standing in Canadian society. The essays in this collection examine the perspectives of both workers and employers, painting a disturbing picture of the challenges that people with chronic illness face in an already demanding labour market. The focus on the Canadian workplace allows for an in-depth understanding of this context and for meaningful comparisons between populations and across workplace environments. Contributors include scholars and practitioners in disability studies, health sciences, geography, occupational therapy, sociology, and labour relations, their expert knowledge ranging from the imperatives of employers, to lived experiences of chronic illness, to the application of workplace policy. By combining research-based chapters with personal reflections on work and chronic illness, Working Bodies grounds itself in existing scholarship while opening up new avenues of discussion.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Sociology

• Full title: Working Bodies
• Subtitle: Chronic Illness in the Canadian Workplace
• Author: Valorie A. Crooks, Sharon Dale Stone, Michelle Owen
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9780773543775
• ISBN: 0773543775
• ID: 04919434
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Weight: 454 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 534 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. May 2014

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