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Work is often associated with a decline in health, both physical and mental.However, the starting point for this book, considering the case of France, is the statistical finding that the decline in health among the unemployed is much worse.Indeed, the mortality rate in this group is 60 per cent higher than that for the employed, the risk of suicide is three times higher, and there is a higher incidence of cancers and heart attacks.The outlook for mental health is just as bleak.The originality of this book, edited by Dominique Lhuillier, Dominique Gelpe and Anne-Marie Waser, lies in this triangulation of work, health and unemployment, based on the testimonies of people in unemployment.Indeed, drawing on the individual and collective life stories of around 100 survey participants, work appears in a different light when seen from this perspective.This approach to unemployment paradoxically brings this book under the publishers' "Clinique du travail" collection, wherein work is analysed as a form of empowerment, whose expression and development is intrinsically related to people's health.