| Description |
xxix, 242 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 -- 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 -- 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. |
| Subject |
Industrial hygiene.
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Industrial safety.
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| Added Author |
Mogensen, Vernon, 1952-
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| ISBN |
0765614499 (pbk.) |
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0765614480 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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