Making a healthy change: a historical analysis of workplace wellbeing

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Table 1. Summary of wellbeing discourses in terms of the relationship to the self

Wellbeing discourse	Management theory	Mode of subjection	Determination of the ethical substance	Elaboration of ethical work	Telos (‘fit for work’ subjectivity)
Moral welfare	Paternalism	Poverty	Self-control	Moral improvement	Infantilized
Therapeutic management	Human relations	Social discord	Neuroticism	Mental hygenie	Adjusted
Self-fulfilment	Managed autonomy	‘Organization man’	Self-identity	Self-directed working	Empowered