Health services replaced trade unions as stress-management institutions

Evidence

The NHS, like the education system and other public services, has been forced to try to deal with the social and psychic damage caused by the deliberate destruction of solidarity and security. Where once workers would have turned to trade unions when they were put under increasing stress, now they are encouraged to go to their GP or, if they are lucky enough to be able to be get one on the NHS, a therapist. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1602

Categorization

• SEED: The institutional substitution claim (union to GP) is ripe for an essay on how diagnosis infrastructure absorbed class conflict.
• XREF: connects to: Neoliberal policy privatised stress into individual mental illness — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1601; Stress has been privatized, reframing systemic dysfunction as individual illness — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 42; Labour’s corporatist crisis management disorganized working-class resistance to the crisis — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1100 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Stress has been privatized, reframing systemic dysfunction as individual illness #corroborates (0.80) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 42
• Neoliberal policy privatised stress into individual mental illness #corroborates (0.78) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1601
• Labour’s corporatist crisis management disorganized working-class resistance to the crisis #expands (0.72) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1100