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AUTHOR
Torkild Thanem
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The humanities are not our patient
2021
When inviting contributions to a special issue of this journal titled ‘Management Learning and the Unsettled Humanities’ the guest editors did not simply encourage contributors to explore possibilities ‘for reciprocal integration’ between the two realms. Stressing that ‘the humanities . . . [are] facing a complex crisis on their own’, they stated that ‘the humanities . . . need to be enriched, nuanced, and critiqued through . . . the ideas and perspectives of organisational research’. While we may agree that all is not well in the humanities and share their scepticism towards ‘just prescribing the value of the humanities to ameliorate the ills of management education’, we are less confiden…
From stress to resistance: Challenging the capitalist underpinnings of mental unhealth in work and organizations
2022
The worldwide spread of work-related mental unhealth suggests that this is amajor problem affecting organizations and employees on a global scale. In thispaper, we therefore provide a thematic review of the literatures that address thisissue in management and organization studies (MOS) and related fields. Whilethese literatures examine how employee mental health is affected by organiza-tional and occupational structures and managed by organizations and employ-ees, they have paid relatively little attention to the capitalist labour relationswhich underpin the unhealthy conditions of contemporary working life. Theyhave paid even less attention to how these conditions may be resisted. To helpf…