Work and the political economy of stress: Recontextualizing the study of mental health/illness in sociology

Mental Health, Social Mirror

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 143-167

  Fenwick, Rudy ^a   Tausig, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-36320-2_7     Document Type: Chapter

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