Worker safety under siege : labor, capital, and the politics of workplace safety in a deregulated world / Vernon Mogensen, editor.

Other author Mogensen, Vernon, 1952-
Format Book
Publication InfoArmonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, ©2006.
Descriptionxxix, 242 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Industrial hygiene.
Industrial safety.

Contents Acts of God, acts of man : the invisibility of workplace death / Jordan Barab -- Criminal neglect : how dangerous employers stay safe from prosecution / Rory O'Neill -- Regulating risk at work : is expert paternalism the answer to worker irrationality? / Peter Dorman -- Silicosis and the ongoing struggle to protect workers' health / Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner -- How safe are U.S. workplaces for Spanish speaking workers? / Laura H. Rhodes -- Got air? The campaign to improve indoor air quality at the City University of New York / Joan Greenbaum and David Kotelchuck -- State or society? The rise and repeal of OSHA's ergonomics standard / Vernon Mogensen -- The 10 percenters : gender, nationality, and occupational health in Canada / Penney Kome -- All that is solid melts into air : worker participation and occupational health and safety regulation in Ontario, 1970-2000 / Robert Storey and Eric Tucker -- The sinking of the neoliberal P-36 platform in Brazil / Carlos Eduardo Siqueira and Nadia Haiama-Neurohr -- Health and safety at work in Russia and Hungary : illusion and reality in the transition crisis / Michael Haynes and Rumy Husan.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2005010491
ISBN0765614480 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780765614483 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks HD7261 .W67 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold