The Humiliated and the Offended: An Ordinary Critique of Work
- By Romain Huët
- and Olivier Sarrouy
Pages 120 to 129
Cite this article
- HUËT, Romain
- and SARROUY, Olivier,
- Huët, Romain.
- et al.
- Huët, R.
- and Sarrouy, O.
https://doi.org/10.3917/sc.019.0120
Cite this article
- Huët, R.
- and Sarrouy, O.
- Huët, Romain.
- et al.
- HUËT, Romain
- and SARROUY, Olivier,
https://doi.org/10.3917/sc.019.0120
This article aims to initiate a reflection on the “ordinary critique” of suffering in the workplace. Setting out from a five-year observation within an association for the prevention of suicide, and the analysis of hundreds of conversations between this association’s volunteers and their unfortunate clients, we tried to identify the various ways in which ordinary people tend to describe their own suffering, and how they locate their psychological and social insecurity in relation to their working conditions.
Keywords
- suffering
- work
- narration
- ordinary
- social criticism
- ethnography
- suicide
Publisher keywords: ethnography, narration, ordinary, social criticism, suffering, suicide, work