Alan Hall

The Subjectivities and Politics of Occupational Risk (eBook, ePUB)

Mines, Farms and Auto Factories

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Subjectivities and Politics of Occupational Risk links restructuring in three industries to shifts in risk subjectivities and politics, both within workplaces and within the safety management and regulative spheres, often leading to conflict and changes in law, political discourses and management approaches.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000228090
• Artikelnr.: 60356323

Autorenporträt

Alan Hall recently retired from the Department of Sociology at Memorial University where he now holds an Honorary Research Professor position. His most recent 2020 publications are a co-authored book on employment standards published by University of Toronto Press, and an article in Economic and Industrial Democracy on vulnerable workers.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction and Research Methods
Part 1: Risk Subjectivities and Practices
2. Identifying Hazards and Judging Risk
3. Taking Risks or Taking a Stand: Interests, Power and Identity
Part 2: Case Studies of Health and Safety in Hard Rock Mining, Family
Farming and Auto Parts Manufacturing
4. Transforming the Mining Labour Process: Transforming Risk and its Social
Construction
5. Reconstructing Miner Consent: Management Objectives and Strategies
6. The Transformation and Fragmentation of Canadian Agriculture
7. Health and Safety in Farming
8. The Transformation of Production and Health and Safety in Auto Parts
Manufacturing.
9. Participation and Control in a Non-Union Auto Parts Firm
10. Conclusion and Implications for Change