ABSTRACT
In this chapter the author explores the reality of work and focus on several mechanisms: the stress commonly encountered in the workplace; the concept of dignity as related to work; and the significance of professional group membership that is often an extension of the workplace and influences workplace life. His activities have taken place in a variety of geographies on a single large campus without exhausting the possibilities. Yale's geographic possibilities are enlarged, too, by the simple fact that the city of New Haven's roads and other buildings belonging to non-university entities and activities interact seamlessly with the university. Mountz discussed how both men and women experienced stress at work, including the heavy pressure to perform and do well in achieving an articulated or imagined goal. The author had taken note of Rowe's scholarship concerning rehabilitation of patients. He has discussed burnout among women in universities and among physicians carrying out clinical work with patients.
