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Making a healthy change: a historical analysis of workplace wellbeing

Management & organizational history : M&OH, 2022-04, Vol.17 (1-2), p.20-42 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Making a healthy change: a historical analysis of workplace wellbeing
Author: Wallace, James
Subjects: Foucault ; genealogy ; human relations ; paternalism ; subjectivity ; wellbeing ; wellness
Is Part Of: Management & organizational history : M&OH, 2022-04, Vol.17 (1-2), p.20-42
Description: This paper looks at the precedents of current wellbeing programs, examining three historical modes of workplace wellbeing in order to analyze the way in which employees have become subjects of wellbeing discourse. In doing so, this paper seeks to illustrate the historical trajectory of the management of employee health, exploring both its disjunctures and continuities. It is argued that workplace wellbeing can be characterized in two ways. First, as an intervention into the lives of employees, becoming a means of producing 'fit for work' subjects. Second, in terms of the legitimation of this intervention through its discursive positioning as a response to prevalent social concerns. It is noted that, while wellbeing has evolved over time in terms of its rationale and its practices, it has continued to be characterized by these two features.
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 1744-9359
EISSN: 1744-9367
DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2022.2068152
Source: Taylor & Francis Open Access

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