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PublisherLang A&G International Academic Publishers, Peter

ISBN-101800794746

ISBN-139781800794740

eBay Product ID (ePID)27057250641

Product Key Features

Number of Pages342 Pages

Publication NameBastards at Work : Universal Lessons on Bullying from Contemporary French Storytelling

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2021

SubjectFilm / General, Sociology / General, Management

FeaturesNew Edition

TypeTextbook

AuthorMartin Goodman

Subject AreaPerforming Arts, Social Science, Business & Economics

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight18.3 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2021-018533

Dewey Edition23

Reviews«A fascinating and unique insight into the phenomenon of workplace bullying through the prism of contemporary French fiction. The book captures the individual suffering and power dynamics that characterise bullying in the workplace, while situating this within wider debates in the social sciences, psychology and cultural studies.»(Sarah Waters, Professor of French Studies, University of Leeds) «Drawing on a rich range of examples, Goodman deftly probes the stories told about workplace bullying not simply as a vital topic in its own right but as an important way to explore the effects of neoliberalism on working lives. Tremendously well informed, the book will be of interest to students of both French culture and contemporary labour practices.»(Martin O'Shaughnessy, Professor, School of Arts & Humanities, Nottingham Trent University)

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal843.9209355

Edition DescriptionNew Edition

Table Of ContentContents: Mind games: The workplace as battleground for psychological warfare - Systemic violence: The organisation as bully - Homo oeconomicus and beyond - Brain over brawn: Psychological violence in the era of knowledge work - Body and mind: Bullying and medicalisation at work - Degrees of complicity: Co- workers as witnesses - Storytelling as authentic lived experience - Corporate: Emilie's journey: A sequence analysis - Isabelle Sorente's play, Hard copy (English trans. Martin Goodman).

SynopsisBullying is a social phenomenon that defines the contemporary workplace. In France, workplace bullying has emerged as a subject of intense interest and controversy. This study contextualises and analyses a new wave of fictional storytelling that has emerged in France since the year 2000., «A fascinating and unique insight into the phenomenon of workplace bullying through the prism of contemporary French fiction. The book captures the individual suffering and power dynamics that characterise bullying in the workplace, while situating this within wider debates in the social sciences, psychology and cultural studies.» (Sarah Waters, Professor of French Studies, University of Leeds) «Drawing on a rich range of examples, Goodman deftly probes the stories told about workplace bullying not simply as a vital topic in its own right but as an important way to explore the effects of neoliberalism on working lives. Tremendously well informed, the book will be of interest to students of both French culture and contemporary labour practices.» (Martin O'Shaughnessy, Professor, School of Arts & Humanities, Nottingham Trent University) «As an academic plunge into the murky depths of French corporate life, Goodman's book is both intrepid and intimate. It is also singular. To date, no other Anglophone commentator has got to grips with the breadth of French fictional accounts of work to this extent. Building on the foundations laid by the studies of Sarah Waters, Martin O'Shaughnessy, and Jeremy Lane, Bastards at Work captures the miseries of twenty-first-century work, but also - best of all - the joys of writing about it.» (Anne M. Mulhall, H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 40) Bullying is a social phenomenon that defines the contemporary workplace with much of the emphasis on psychosocial rather than physical suffering. In France, workplace bullying has emerged as a subject of intense interest and controversy among scholars, policy makers and cultural producers - notably novelists, playwrights and film directors. It has a high public profile as reflected in specific legislation, a wealth of critical literature on workplace suffering, and an extensive range of novels, plays and films. This study contextualises and analyses this wave of fictional storytelling that has emerged in France since the year 2000. It critically analyses more than a dozen such stories with a view to determining how they reflect the lived experiences of workers. Each story is considered from the perspectives of critical commentaries and research from France and elsewhere, focusing on the disciplines of philosophy, psychology, medicine, anthropology, sociology, literary analysis, economics, law and business management. This study also examines how fiction reflects changes in the nature of the French economy, organisations and work itself since the advent of neoliberalism in the 1980s.

LC Classification NumberPQ683.G66 2022