UID:
almahu_9949481229102882
Format:
1 online resource (288 p.)
ISBN:
9780520975347
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9783110993899
Content:
Going beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for resisting our cultural obsession with work and transforming our vision of human flourishing. Burnout has become our go-to term for talking about the pressure and dissatisfaction we experience at work. But because we don't really understand what burnout means, the discourse does little to help workers who are suffering from exhaustion and despair. Jonathan Malesic was one of those workers, and to escape he quit his job as a tenured professor. In The End of Burnout, he dives into the history and psychology of burnout, traces the origin of the high ideals we bring to our dismal jobs, and profiles the individuals and communities who are already resisting our cultural commitment to constant work. In The End of Burnout, Malesic traces his own history as someone who burned out of a tenured job to frame this rigorous investigation of how and why so many of us feel worn out, alienated, and useless in our work. Through research on the science, culture, and philosophy of burnout, Malesic explores the gap between our vocation and our jobs, between the ideals we have for work and the reality of what we have to do. He eschews the usual prevailing wisdom in confronting burnout ("Learn to say no!" "Practice mindfulness!") to examine how our jobs have been constructed as a symbol of our value and our total identity. And beyond looking at what drives burnout-unfairness, a lack of autonomy, a breakdown of community, mismatches of values-this book highlights groups that are addressing these failures of ethics. We can look to communities of monks, employees of a Dallas nonprofit, intense hobbyists, and artists with disabilities to see the possibilities for resisting a "total work" environment and the paths to recognizing the dignity of workers and nonworkers alike. In this critical yet deeply humane book, Malesic offers the vocabulary we need to recognize burnout, overcome burnout culture, and find moral significance in our lives beyond work.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction --
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I Burnout Culture --
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1 Everyone Is Burned Out, But No One Knows What That Means --
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2. Burnout: The First 2,000 Years --
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3 The Burnout Spectrum --
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4 How Jobs Have Gotten Worse in the Age of Burnout --
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5. Work Saints and Work Martyrs: The Problem with Our Ideals --
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II Counterculture --
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6. We Can Have It All: A New Vision of the Good Life --
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7 How Benedictines Tame the Demons of Work --
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8 Varieties of Anti-Burnout Experience --
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Conclusion: Nonessential Work in a Post-Pandemic World --
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Notes --
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Index
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993899
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EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110994810
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EBOOK PACKAGE Sociology 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110994551
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In:
University of California Press Complete eBook-Package 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110766493
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520344075
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520975347
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520975347?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780520975347
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