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@MISC{_sectioni,
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title = {Section I The context},
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Abstract
Some twenty years ago a book about mental health and work might have appeared incongruous to the curious reader. This is not so in these early years of the 21 st century when most people have either experienced stress or emotional turmoil in their workplace or have friends or relatives who have undergone the experiences of downsizing, outsourcing or corporate takeovers. We now recognise that workplaces must be significant to our mental health, given the time we spend at work and the effort we invest in paid employment. More importantly, we recognise that few workplaces in Australia, or in other developed economies, have escaped the dramatic structural and cultural changes accompanying monetary, trade and labour deregulation. The flexible workplace and new managerial practices of benchmarking, best practice, performance appraisals and Just in Time approaches to productivity and efficiency gains have not been achieved without cost to individual workers and their families. The psychology behind these reforms is the basis of the first chapter
