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What if work is making us sick?
While employment has become less physically dangerous, it seems to have become more psychologically harmful.
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While work in Britain has become less physically dangerous, it seems to have become more psychologically dangerous.
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Sarah O’Connor
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Britain is sick. The number of people claiming disability benefits has doubled in a year.
Working-age deaths (that did not involve Covid-19) are on the rise. As Mr Andy Haldane, former chief economist of the Bank of England, put it in a speech recently: “For the first time, probably since the Industrial Revolution... health and well-being are in retreat.”
