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Whistle While You Work (For Nothing): Positive Affect as Coercive Strategy – The Case of Workfare

Posted on December 10, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

In this post, Lynne Friedli and Robert Stearn look at the role of psychological coercion, notably through the imposition of positive affect, in UK Government workfare programmes. There has been little or no debate about the recruitment of psychology/psychologists into monitoring, … Continue reading →