Working Disasters: The Politics of Recognition and Response (Work, Health And Environment Series, Series Editors, Charles Levenstein And John Wooding) - Hardcover

Tucker, Eric

 
9780895033192: Working Disasters: The Politics of Recognition and Response (Work, Health And Environment Series, Series Editors, Charles Levenstein And John Wooding)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0895033194 ISBN 13: 9780895033192
Verlag: Routledge, 2006

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Addresses the politics of recognition in case studies of the long-haul trucking industry, repetitive strain injuries, and lung disease in miners. This text considers the politics of response in studies of a factory fire, the loss of an offshore oilrig, lung disease among miners, a mine explosion, and the prosecution of health and safety offences.

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Eric Tucker

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IN PRAISE OF "This pathbreaking collection is essential reading for anyone interested in how governments identify, understand, and react to dangers and disasters at work. Political scientists, sociologists, and historians interested in work, labor, and the political process would also be well served by close attention to these case studies." —Charles Noble, California State University, Long Beach "Working Disasters brings together an outstanding group of scholars to analyze a diverse range of occupational health and safety catastrophes. The result is a formidable contribution to the disasters literature." —John Braithwaite, Australia National University, Canberra "The book brings together work from several fields—-sociology, law, history, criminology, and industrial relations-and presents cases that relate to a variety of occupational groups: Australian truck drivers and white-collar workers, Canadian miners, and oil rig workers in the British North Sea, among others. In exploring the politics of disaster recognition and response, Eric Tucker has performed a valuable service for all those interested in work and working conditions and in occupational health and safety." —Theo Nichols, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, U.K. "The toll of injuries and deaths in the workplace furnishes the authors of Working Disasters with the raw material for an intellectual inquiry that brings together two related but distinct strains of scholarship: the risk and disaster literatures. The starting premise is that the lamentably high incidence of harm in the workplace should be, but rarely is, treated as a disaster. The stories told here . . . beg us to ask why these risks should not be labeled as disaster-creating conditions and regulated accordingly. While sometimes chilling, the contributions are a 'good read' for anyone interested in the fate of workers across time, geographic space, and vastly different occupational settings, from offices, to trucks, to mines. It lays down a platform for future theoretical work and raises our consciousness about levels of harm that, so far, we have tolerated with apparent equanimity." —Harry Glasbeek, York University, Toronto

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IN PRAISE OF "This pathbreaking collection is essential reading for anyone interested in how governments identify, understand, and react to dangers and disasters at work. Political scientists, sociologists, and historians interested in work, labor, and the political process would also be well served by close attention to these case studies." Charles Noble, California State University, Long Beach "Working Disasters brings together an outstanding group of scholars to analyze a diverse range of occupational health and safety catastrophes. The result is a formidable contribution to the disasters literature." John Braithwaite, Australia National University, Canberra "The book brings together work from several fields -sociology, law, history, criminology, and industrial relations-and presents cases that relate to a variety of occupational groups: Australian truck drivers and white-collar workers, Canadian miners, and oil rig workers in the British North Sea, among others. In exploring the politics of disaster recognition and response, Eric Tucker has performed a valuable service for all those interested in work and working conditions and in occupational health and safety." Theo Nichols, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, U.K. "The toll of injuries and deaths in the workplace furnishes the authors of Working Disasters with the raw material for an intellectual inquiry that brings together two related but distinct strains of scholarship: the risk and disaster literatures. The starting premise is that the lamentably high incidence of harm in the workplace should be, but rarely is, treated as a disaster. The stories told here . . . beg us to ask why these risks should not be labeled as disaster-creating conditions and regulated accordingly. While sometimes chilling, the contributions are a 'good read' for anyone interested in the fate of workers across time, geographic space, and vastly different occupational settings, from offices, to trucks, to mines. It lays down a platform for future theoretical work and raises our consciousness about levels of harm that, so far, we have tolerated with apparent equanimity." Harry Glasbeek, York University, Toronto

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Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0895033194
ISBN 13 
9780895033192
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
328
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