Eric Tucker

Working Disasters

The Politics of Recognition and Response

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 629g
• ISBN-13: 9780895033192
• ISBN-10: 0895033194
• Artikelnr.: 69948462

Autorenporträt

Eric Tucker

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
CHAPTER 1. Introduction: The Politics of Recognition and Response
Eric Tucker
CHAPTER 2. Trucking Tragedies: The Hidden Disaster of Mass Death in the
Long-Haul Road Transport Industry
Michael Quinlan, Claire Mayhew, and Richard Johnstone
CHAPTER 3. The Australian Epidemic of Repetition Strain Injury: A
Sociological Perspective
Andrew Hopkins
CHAPTER 4. "All Part of the Game": The Recognition of and Response to an
Industrial Disaster at the Fluorspar Mines, St. Lawrence, Newfoundland,
1933-1978
Richard Rennie
CHAPTER 5. The Long Road to Action: The Silicosis Problem and Swedish
Occupational Health and Safety Policy in the 20th Century
Annette Thörnquist
CHAPTER 6. Disaster, Meaning Making, and Reform in Antebellum Massachusetts
Patricia Reeve
CHAPTER 7. Regulating Safety, Regulating Profit: Cost-Cutting, Injury and
Death in the British North Sea after Piper Alpha
Dave Whyte
CHAPTER 8. Courts, Crime, and Workplace
Richard Johnstone
CHAPTER 9. Blame and Causation in the Aftermath of Industrial Disasters:
Nova Scotia's Coal Mines from 1858 to Westray
Susan Dodd
CHAPTER 10. Accountability and Reform in the Aftermath of the Westray Mine
Explosion
Eric Tucker
Index