1st Edition

Death and the City On Loss, Mourning, and Melancholia at Work

By Susan Martha Kahn Copyright 2017
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

Organisational collapse is part of our vernacular. Enron, Woolworths, Lehman's, Bank of America, Rover, BOAC, Northern Rock - these failures are part of our cultural experience of work. At a time when working lives are often vulnerable and organisational mortality is under threat from technology and the economy the consequences of organizational death are worthy of attention. Organisations can... Read more
Foreword , Introduction , Introducing death and the city , Death in Theory , Death and psychoanalysis , Death and organisations , Death at Work , Mourning at work , Melancholia at work , The death drive , Defences at work , Ending thoughts

Biography

Susan Kahn