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The normalisation of 'excessive' workforce drug testing?

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2006
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dc.abstract.plIn 'The normalization of 'sensible' recreational drug use' Parker, Williams and Aldridge (2002) present data on illegal drug use by adolescents and young adults in the UK. They argue that it is both widespread and largely socially benign - ie, normal. We contrast this 'normalisation' thesis with evidence of an increase in the introduction of drug policies - and drug testing - in British organisations. Such policies construct employee drug use as excessive enough to necessitate heightened management vigilance over workers, in order to preserve corporate interests. These contrasting representations of drug use inspire our discussion. We deploy the normal/ excessive couplet to unpick drug taking, to examine organisational drug policies and to comment upon emerging and potential resistance to these policies. Our contribution is to suggest that each of these activities can be understood as simultaneously normal and excessive, in an area where orthodox and critical analyses alike tend to be far more dualistic.
dc.contributor.authorJoanna Brewis
dc.contributor.authorCharlotte Sanderson
dc.contributor.authorEdward Wray-Bliss
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-25T16:48:02Z
dc.date.available2025-07-25T16:48:02Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.date.published2006
dc.description.issue1
dc.description.physical39-53
dc.description.volume5
dc.identifier.issn1532-5555
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.kozminski.edu.pl/handle/item/3122
dc.languageen
dc.relation.ispartofTamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry
dc.relation.pages39-53
dc.rightsCC-BY-4.0
dc.subtypeOriginal
dc.title

The normalisation of 'excessive' workforce drug testing?

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