ABSTRACT
At the turn of the second millennium, occupations seldom leave such clear footprints. The same ground has been trodden by many factors - among them, upbringing, adverse life events, housing and environment outside work and individual health-related behaviour. People who might have shown the mark of their occupation may not survive long enough in that job for the effects to develop, or may have the stigmata, but display them misleadingly, in a changed job. The extra concepts in Sick From Work are derived from combining a return to Marx’s theory of alienation with engaging in contemporary debates in medical sociology and social anthropology. So far, few attempts have been made to apply either approach to work and health, much less to combine them, perhaps because the field has fallen into the gap between the sociology of work and the sociology of health.
