Untimely Sacrifices
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Untimely Sacrifices

Burnout and the New Finnish Economy

Daena Aki Funahashi

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Untimely Sacrifices

Burnout and the New Finnish Economy

Daena Aki Funahashi

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Untimely Sacrifices questions why individuals may give their time and energy to the collective against their own self-interest. Turning to Finland where public health officials named occupational burnout as a "new hazard" of the new economy, Daena Funahashi asks: What moves people to work to the point of pathological stress?

Contrary to health experts who highlight the importance of self-management and energetic conservation, Funahashi questions the very economic premise of cognitive psychology that one could "economize" one's energy and thus save oneself. By pitting anthropological takes on sacrifice next to the clinical discourses on pressure, work, and coping, Funahashi offers ways to rethink what drives stress.

Untimely Sacrifices also provides a compelling critique of state welfare and political economy, contesting the tendency to treat the gift economy as something separate from the force that makes redistributive mechanisms of state welfare work. It is a book essential to those interested in how forces unassimilable to conventional economy come to matter in issues of labor, stress, and welfare.

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Publisher
Cornell University Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9781501768101
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Physical Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

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    APA 6 Citation

    Funahashi, D. A. (2023). Untimely Sacrifices ([edition unavailable]). Cornell University Press. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/3518570 (Original work published 2023)

    Chicago Citation

    Funahashi, Daena Aki. (2023) 2023. Untimely Sacrifices. [Edition unavailable]. Cornell University Press. https://www.perlego.com/book/3518570.

    Harvard Citation

    Funahashi, D. A. (2023) Untimely Sacrifices. [edition unavailable]. Cornell University Press. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/3518570 (Accessed: 1 July 2024).

    MLA 7 Citation

    Funahashi, Daena Aki. Untimely Sacrifices. [edition unavailable]. Cornell University Press, 2023. Web. 1 July 2024.