Awards

• Winner of Winner, Society for the Anthropology of Work Book Prize.

Overview

Psychological harassment at work, or mobbing, has become a significant public policy issue in Italy and elsewhere in Europe. Mobbing has given rise to specialized counseling clinics, a new field of professional expertise, and new labor laws. For Noelle J. Mole, mobbing is a manifestation of Italy's rapid transition from a highly protectionist to a market-oriented labor regime and a neoliberal state. She analyzes the classification of mobbing as a work-related illness, the deployment of preventive public health programs, the relation of mobbing to gendered work practices, and workers' use of the concept of mobbing to make legal and medical claims, with implications for state policy, labor contracts, and political movements. For many Italian workers, mobbing embodies the social and psychological effects of an economy and a state in transition.

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An important and path-breaking work... provocative and nuanced, theoretically sophisticated and ethnographically rich. David G. Horn, Ohio State University

An important and path-breaking work... provocative and nuanced, theoretically sophisticated and ethnographically rich. David G. Horn, Ohio State University Mole (anthropology, Princeton Univ.) examines mobbing in Italy and explores its roots in neoliberal employment policies implemented by the government. ... Recommended. Choice Mole's analysis is thus multifaceted, sophisticated, and full of insightful observations. Yet ... the most intriguing contribution of this book is how it may open the eyes of Americans (and others) to our own social constructions of work and workplace change... Mole's exploration of mobbing in Italy is both informative and insightful. - American Journal of Sociology

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Noelle J. Mole is a political and medical anthropologist. She teaches in the Expository Writing Program at New York University.

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