Mary Wrenn Mary.Wrenn@uwe.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Economics
Corporate mindfulness culture and neoliberalism
Wrenn, Mary V.
Authors
Abstract
Corporate mindfulness is the favorite labor management technique of the neoliberal period. The formalized packaging of corporate mindfulness began in the late 1970s but was built on a long tradition of attempts to hack the minds of workers in the United States. What distinguishes these previous attempts from corporate mindfulness is the strong ideological connection between corporate mindfulness and neoliberalism, the ideological operant of this modern stage of capitalism. This research establishes and explores that connection and the contradictions wrought by it, by examining the ways in which workers’ stress, anxieties, and complaints are elided and workers are instead subjected to the directed introspection of corporate mindfulness programs and further socialized to understand the workplace as community. JEL Classification: B52, Z12, N00
Journal Article Type | Article |
---|---|
Acceptance Date | Nov 10, 2021 |
Online Publication Date | Jul 14, 2022 |
Publication Date | 2022-07 |
Deposit Date | Jul 21, 2022 |
Publicly Available Date | Jul 21, 2022 |
Journal | Review of Radical Political Economics |
Print ISSN | 0486-6134 |
Electronic ISSN | 1552-8502 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 54 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 153-170 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1177/04866134211063521 |
Keywords | Articles, neoliberalism, institutions, emotions |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9703795 |
Publisher URL | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/04866134211063521 |
Files
Corporate mindfulness culture and neoliberalism
(141 Kb)
PDF
Licence
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Publisher Licence URL
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Copyright Statement
© 2022 Union for Radical Political Economics
You might also like
Unveiling and deconstructing the enabling myths of neoliberalism through immanent critique
(2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Agency and neoliberalism
(2014)
Journal Article
The Social Ontology of Fear and Neoliberalism
(2014)
Journal Article
Identity, identity politics, and neoliberalism
(2014)
Journal Article
Consecrating capitalism: The US prosperity gospel and neoliberalism
(2019)
Journal Article
Downloadable Citations
About UWE Bristol Research Repository
Administrator e-mail: repository@uwe.ac.uk
This application uses the following open-source libraries:
SheetJS Community Edition
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
PDF.js
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
Font Awesome
SIL OFL 1.1 (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL)
MIT License (http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html)
CC BY 3.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
Powered by Worktribe © 2024
Advanced Search