Details

Subjects:

Industrial accidents -- Government policy.
Occupational diseases -- Government policy.
Industrial safety -- Government policy.

Form/Genre:

Electronic books.

Contents:

ch. 1. Introduction : the politics of recognition and response / Eric Tucker
ch. 2. Trucking tragedies : the hidden disaster of mass death in the long-haul road transport industry / Michael Quinlan, Claire Mayhew, and Richard Johnstone
ch. 3. The Australian epidemic of repetition strain injury : a sociological perspective / Andrew Hopkins
ch. 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
ch. 5. The long road to action : the silicosis problem and Swedish occupational health and safety policy in the 20th century / Annette Thornquist
ch. 6. Disaster, meaning making, and reform in Antebellum Massachusetts / Patricia Reeve
ch. 7. Regulating safety, regulating profit : cost-cutting, injury and death in the British North Sea after Piper Alpha / David Whyte
ch. 8. Courts, crime, and workplace disaster / Richard Johnstone
ch. 9. Blame and causation in the aftermath of industrial disasters : Nova Scotia's coal mines from 1858 to Westray / Susan Dodd
ch. 10. Accountability and reform in the aftermath of the Westray Mine Explosion / Eric Tucker.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 27, 2016).
"First published 2006 by Baywood Publishing Company, Inc."--T.p. verso.

Contributor:

Tucker, Eric, 1951-

ISBN:

1-351-84054-1
0-415-78441-7
1-315-22332-5

OCLC:

973026715

Publisher Number:

10.4324/9781315223322 doi