TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stone,Sharon-Dale
AU  - Crooks,Valorie A.
TI  - Working Bodies: Chronic Illness in the Canadian Workplace
SN  - 9780773591813
AV  - RA973.5 .W675 2014 
U1  - 331.5/970971 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Montreal
PB  - McGill-Queen's University Press
KW  - Chronically ill-Employment-Canada
KW  - Chronically ill-Canada-Economic conditions
KW  - Chronically ill-Canada-Social conditions
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Contents -- Figures -- Introduction: Chronic Illness in the Canadian Workplace -- PART ONE: CONFRONTING AND NEGOTIATING ATTITUDES -- Narrative Preface: Adam's Story -- 1 Portrayals of Fibromyalgia and Paid Work: Too Sick to Work? -- 2 Including and Accommodating Youth with Chronic Illness and Childhood Onset Disability in the Canadian Workplace -- 3 Navigating Chronic Injuries in the Workplace: Five Workers' Experiences with Systems and Relationships -- PART TWO: PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOMMODATING CHRONIC ILLNESS -- Narrative Preface: Julie's Story -- 4 Employers' Perspectives on Workplace Accommodation of Chronic Health Conditions -- 5 Supervisors' Perspectives on Work Accommodation for Chronically Ill Employees -- 6 Accommodation in the Context of Complex Chronic Illness -- PART THREE: EXPERIENCING CHRONIC ILLNESS IN THE WORKPLACE -- Narrative Preface: Corinne's Story -- 7 Chronic Illness among Immigrant Workers in Canada: An Overview of Existing Knowledge -- 8 On Being a Princess and a Problem: Negotiating Attitudinal Barriers to Chronic Illness in Canadian Universities -- 9 Chronic Illness and the Canadian Knowledge Worker: The Role of the Body and Embodiment in Shaping the Production of Academic Work -- PART FOUR: EPILOGUE -- Narrative Preface: Andrea's Story -- 10 Epilogue -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- U -- V -- W -- Y
N2  - An informative look at the experience of navigating the Canadian workplace while living with chronic illness
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3332703
ER  -