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Well Enough to Work? Social Enterprise Employment and the Geographies of Mental Health Recovery

Abstract

This article examines the significance of paid work and workplaces for people living with mental ill health. Employment and workplaces have been largely absent in the mental health geography literature in part because of the persistent problems that people with mental ill health face in finding and retaining paid work; yet paid work and questions of productivity remain central to the very meaning of mental illness in capitalist society. To …

Authors

Evans J; Wilton R

Journal

Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Vol. 109, No. 1, pp. 87–103

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Publication Date

January 2, 2019

DOI

10.1080/24694452.2018.1473753

ISSN

2469-4452

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Fields of Research (FoR)

McMaster Research Centers and Institutes (RCI)