Suicide Voices: Labour Trauma in France

by Sarah Waters

This book examines the phenomenon of work suicides in France and asks why, at the present historical juncture, conditions of work can push individuals to take their own lives. During the 2000s, France experienced what commentators have described as a 'suicide epidemic', whereby increasing numbers of workers in the face of extreme pressures of work, chose to kill themselves. The book analyses a corpus of testimonial material linked to 66 suicide cases...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789622239
• ISBN13: 9781789622232
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"