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Tag Archives: work-life balance

“Working Ourselves To Death…

Posted on 19 Jan 2015 by UCU
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… Discourses of Attachment and Overwork in the Economy of Academic Labour”

A blog post for CSTOnline by Catherine Johnson (University of Nottingham) that may just be of interest to readers of the Reading UCU blog. Enjoy it here:

http://cstonline.tv/working-ourselves-to-death 

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged labour, overwork, stress, work-life balance | Leave a Reply

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