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Ecology The Environment of the Workplace and Suicide Suicide has been tracked as an index of despair in society in the folklore and literature of Western countries for a long time. An early definitive study linked occupation to the stresses that lead to despair, and despair to suicide. Thomas Masaryk, the founding President of Czechoslovakia, in his doctoral thesis, published in 1881, on suicide in Central Europe, where suicide was common, especially among urban industrial workers, and becoming more frequent. He attributed this to despair, the “sequellae” he read about in the works of Goethe, published at the turn of that century. MORE Applied
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