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Safety or Profit? International Studies in Governance, Change and the Work Environment

Nichols Theo Walters, David
Innbundet / 2014 / Engelsk

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9780895038173
Publisert
2014-02-28
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Baywood Publishing Company Inc
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498 gr
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229 mm
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152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Engelsk
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Innbundet
Antall sider
268

Forfatter
Nichols Theo
Walters, David

Biographical note

Theo Nichols is Distinguished Research Professor at the Cardiff School of Social Sciences, UK, and an associate researcher at the Cardiff Work Environment Research Centre (CWERC). He has written widely on a variety of subjects in the general field of economic sociology--including class relations, management, and productivity--and has a special interest in labour relations in Turkey and China. He was one of the first sociologists in the UK to research health and safety at work, a field to which he has returned at various times since the publication, with Peter Armstrong, of Safety or Profit? in 1973. David Walters is professor of Work Environment and Director of the Cardiff Work Environment Research Centre (CWERC), a Cardiff University research centre in the School of Social Sciences. His research and writing is on various aspects of the work environment, and he has particular interests in employee representation and consultation in healthy and safety, the politics of health and safety at work, regulating health and safety management, chemical risk management at work, and health and safety in small firms. His recent publications include Regulating Workplace Risks: A Comparative Study of Inspection Regimes in Times of Change (2011), Workplace Health and Safety: International Perspectives on Worker Representation (2009), and Within Reach? Managing Chemical Risks in Small Enterprises (2008). He is the editor of the international journal Policy and Practice in Health and Safety, is a member of the IOSH Research Committee, and has advised several state inquiries on health and safety.

Safety or Profit? International Studies in Governance, Change and the Work Environment

Nichols Theo Walters, David
Innbundet / 2014 / Engelsk
Nichols Theo Walters, David
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As the title Safety or Profit? suggests, health and safety at work needs to be understood in the context of the wider political economy. This book brings together contributions informed by this view from internationally recognized scholars. It reviews the governance of health and safety at work, with special reference to Australia, Canada, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Three main aspects are discussed. The restructuring of the labor market: this is considered with respect to precarious work and to gender issues and their implications for the health and safety of workers. The neoliberal agenda: this is examined with respect to the diminished power of organized labor, decriminalization, and new governance theory, including an examination of how well the health-and-safety-at-work regimes put in place in many industrial societies about forty years ago have fared and how distinctive the recent emphasis on self-regulation in several countries really is. The role of evidence: there is a dearth of evidence-based policy. The book examines how policy on health and safety at work is formulated at both company and state levels. Cases considered include the scant regard paid to evidence by an official inquiry into future strategy in Canada; the lack of evidence-based policy and the reluctance to observe the precautionary principle with respect to work-related cancer in the United Kingdom; and the failure to learn from past mistakes in the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
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This book brings together contributions informed by this view from internationally recognized scholars.
List of Tables and ChartsAbbreviationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionDavid Walters and Theo NicholsPART I. ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING, LABOR MARKET STRATIFICATION, AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES FOR HEALTH AND SAFETYChapter 1. Precarity and Workplace Well-Being: A General ReviewMichael QuinlanChapter 2. A Gender Perspective on Work, Regulation, and Their Effects on Women’s Health, Safety and Well-BeingKatherine Lippel and Karen MessingPART II. NEW GOVERNANCE, ORGANIZED LABOR, DEREGULATION, DECRIMINALIZATION, AND THE NEO-LIBERAL AGENDAChapter 3. Resilience Within a Weaker Work Environment System—The Position and Influence of Swedish Safety RepresentativesKaj FrickChapter 4. Old Lessons for New Governance: Safety or Profit and the New Conventional WisdomEric TuckerChapter 5. Safety, Profits, and the New Politics of Regulation Steve Tombs and David WhyteChapter 6. Decriminalization of Health and Safety at Work in Australia Richard JohnstonePART III. THE ROLE AND LIMITS OF EVIDENCEChapter 7. Competing Interests at Play? The Struggle for Occupational Cancer Prevention in the UKAndrew WattersonChapter 8. The Limits and Possibilities of the Structures and Procedures for Health and Safety Regulation in Ontario, CanadaWayne LewchukChapter 9. From Piper Alpha to Deepwater HorizonCharles WoolfsonAfterword Theo Nichols and David WaltersReferences Meet the Contributors Index
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As the title Safety or Profit? suggests, health and safety at work needs to be understood in the context of the wider political economy. This book brings together contributions informed by this view from internationally recognized scholars. It reviews the governance of health and safety at work, with special reference to Australia, Canada, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Three main aspects are discussed. The restructuring of the labor market: this is considered with respect to precarious work and to gender issues and their implications for the health and safety of workers. The neoliberal agenda: this is examined with respect to the diminished power of organized labor, decriminalization, and new governance theory, including an examination of how well the health-and-safety-at-work regimes put in place in many industrial societies about forty years ago have fared and how distinctive the recent emphasis on self-regulation in several countries really is. The role of evidence: there is a dearth of evidence-based policy. The book examines how policy on health and safety at work is formulated at both company and state levels. Cases considered include the scant regard paid to evidence by an official inquiry into future strategy in Canada; the lack of evidence-based policy and the reluctance to observe the precautionary principle with respect to work-related cancer in the United Kingdom; and the failure to learn from past mistakes in the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
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This book brings together contributions informed by this view from internationally recognized scholars.
List of Tables and ChartsAbbreviationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionDavid Walters and Theo NicholsPART I. ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING, LABOR MARKET STRATIFICATION, AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES FOR HEALTH AND SAFETYChapter 1. Precarity and Workplace Well-Being: A General ReviewMichael QuinlanChapter 2. A Gender Perspective on Work, Regulation, and Their Effects on Women’s Health, Safety and Well-BeingKatherine Lippel and Karen MessingPART II. NEW GOVERNANCE, ORGANIZED LABOR, DEREGULATION, DECRIMINALIZATION, AND THE NEO-LIBERAL AGENDAChapter 3. Resilience Within a Weaker Work Environment System—The Position and Influence of Swedish Safety RepresentativesKaj FrickChapter 4. Old Lessons for New Governance: Safety or Profit and the New Conventional WisdomEric TuckerChapter 5. Safety, Profits, and the New Politics of Regulation Steve Tombs and David WhyteChapter 6. Decriminalization of Health and Safety at Work in Australia Richard JohnstonePART III. THE ROLE AND LIMITS OF EVIDENCEChapter 7. Competing Interests at Play? The Struggle for Occupational Cancer Prevention in the UKAndrew WattersonChapter 8. The Limits and Possibilities of the Structures and Procedures for Health and Safety Regulation in Ontario, CanadaWayne LewchukChapter 9. From Piper Alpha to Deepwater HorizonCharles WoolfsonAfterword Theo Nichols and David WaltersReferences Meet the Contributors Index
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780895038173
Publisert
2014-02-28
Utgiver
Vendor
Baywood Publishing Company Inc
Vekt
498 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
268

Forfatter
Nichols Theo
Walters, David

Biographical note

Theo Nichols is Distinguished Research Professor at the Cardiff School of Social Sciences, UK, and an associate researcher at the Cardiff Work Environment Research Centre (CWERC). He has written widely on a variety of subjects in the general field of economic sociology--including class relations, management, and productivity--and has a special interest in labour relations in Turkey and China. He was one of the first sociologists in the UK to research health and safety at work, a field to which he has returned at various times since the publication, with Peter Armstrong, of Safety or Profit? in 1973. David Walters is professor of Work Environment and Director of the Cardiff Work Environment Research Centre (CWERC), a Cardiff University research centre in the School of Social Sciences. His research and writing is on various aspects of the work environment, and he has particular interests in employee representation and consultation in healthy and safety, the politics of health and safety at work, regulating health and safety management, chemical risk management at work, and health and safety in small firms. His recent publications include Regulating Workplace Risks: A Comparative Study of Inspection Regimes in Times of Change (2011), Workplace Health and Safety: International Perspectives on Worker Representation (2009), and Within Reach? Managing Chemical Risks in Small Enterprises (2008). He is the editor of the international journal Policy and Practice in Health and Safety, is a member of the IOSH Research Committee, and has advised several state inquiries on health and safety.

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