At the Point of Production (eBook, PDF)

The Social Analysis of Occupational and Environmental Health
Redaktion: Levenstein, Charles

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Locates workers' health and safety problems in the broad political economy. This title argues that without a deep understanding of the social/political/economic context of particular industries or workplaces, we cannot fully grasp the process of recognition and control of industrial hazards.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351845809
• Artikelnr.: 48959223

Autorenporträt

Charles Levenstein

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Charles Levenstein
SECTION 1. GLOBALIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 1. Work and Health in the Global Economy: Lessons from Developing
and Industrialized Countries on the Impact of Work on Health
C. Eduardo Siqueira, Blanca Lemus, and Charles Levenstein
Chapter 2. New Points of Production: Homework and Shoemaking in Asia
Pia Markkanen and Charles Levenstein
Chapter 3. Robbers Aboard: Workplace Violence and (In)Security in Public
Transport in Salvador, Brazil
Eduardo Paes Machado and Charles Levenstein
SECTION 2. ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS
Chapter 4. The Story of the Alar Ban: Politics and Unforeseen Consequences
Beth Rosenberg
Chapter 5. Health and Safety Organizing: OCAW'S Worker-to-Worker Health and
Safety Training Program
Craig Slatin
Chapter 6. Low-Hanging Fruit: Social Values and Industry Discretion in
Toxics Use Reduction Policy
Richard Campbell and Charles Levenstein
Chapter 7. Joint Occupational and Environmental Pollution Prevention
Strategies: A Model for Primary Prevention
Karla Armenti, Rafael Moure-Eraso, Craig Slatin, and Ken Geiser
SECTION 3. GENDER
Chapter 8. Sexual Harassment: Labor Relations by Other Means
Eve Spangler
Chapter 9. Gender and Cleaner Production: Toward a Framework for Including
Gender Analysis When Developing Strategies and Designing Solutions
Sally Edwards and Margaret Quinn
Chapter 10. The Boston-Area HASWIC Research Circle: An Innovative
Participatory Method for Coloring in the Picture of a Special Work
Environment
Susan Moir and Lenore S. Azaroff
SECTION 4. ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS
Chapter 11. Good Practice Guidelines for Occupational Health Research
Funded by the Private Sector
Margaret Quinn, Charles Levenstein, and Gregory F. DeLaurier
Index