Bastards at Work: Universal Lessons on Bullying from Contemporary French Storytelling (New edition)

Bullying is a social phenomenon that defines the contemporary workplace with much of the emphasis on psychosocial rather than physical suffering.

In France, workplace bullying has emerged as a subject of intense interest and controversy among scholars, policy makers and cultural producers - notably novelists, playwrights and film directors.

It has a high public profile as reflected in specific legislation, a wealth of critical literature on workplace suffering, and an extensive range of novels, plays and films.

This study contextualises and analyses this wave of fictional storytelling that has emerged in France since the year 2000.

It critically analyses more than a dozen such stories with a view to determining how they reflect the lived experiences of workers.