Author: Publisher:
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Category : Building failures
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
An Authentic History of the Lawrence Calamity
Author: Catalog ... of the American Historical Library, Collection of Alfred S. Manson, Boston, Mass
Author: Alfred Small MansonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Caught in the Machinery
Author: Jamie L. BronsteinPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804700085
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Caught In the Machinery examines the social, legal, cultural and political history of workplace accidents and injured workers in 19th-century Britain and in the broader Anglo-American context.
Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Americana, Belonging to H.M. Cable, Esq., of Hyde Park, Mass
Author: Hobart M. CablePublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Americana ... Nov. 14-18
Author: Hobart M. CablePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Americana, Belonging to H.M. Cable, Esq., of Hyde Park, Mass. ...
Author: H. M. CablePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Private libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Catalogue of the Astor Library
Author: Astor LibraryCatalogue of the Astor Library (continuation)
Author: Astor LibraryWorking Disasters
Author: Eric TuckerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351840541
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Every day, workers are injured, made ill, or killed on the job. Most often, workers experience these harms individually and in isolation. Particular occurrences rarely attract much public attention beyond, perhaps, a small paragraph in the local newspaper. Instead, these events are normalized. This membrane of normalcy, however, is ruptured from time to time, especially after a disaster. This edited collection draws together original case studies written by leading researchers in Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Sweden, and the United States that examine the politics of working disasters. The essays address two fundamental questions: what gets recognized as a work disaster? And how does the state respond to one? In some instances, it seems self-evident that a disaster has occurred. For example, when a mine explodes killing tens or hundreds of workers simultaneously, the media and politicians recognize that this is not just a personal tragedy for the families of the victims, and that more troubling questions need to be asked about how this could happen. In other circumstances, however, the process that determines what gets recognized as a disaster is much more complicated. "Working Disasters" addresses the politics of recognition in case studies of the long-haul trucking industry, repetitive strain injuries, and lung disease in miners. Once it has recognized that a working disaster has occurred, the state typically goes beyond its routine responses to the daily toll of work-related deaths and injuries. Inquiries may be initiated to review the adequacy of regulatory systems and laws may be amended. Sometimes disasters produce meaningful change, but often they do not. In this text, the politics of response is considered in studies of a factory fire, the loss of an offshore oilrig, lung disease among miners, a mine explosion, and the prosecution of health and safety offences. This book will be of use to occupational health and safety activists and professionals; academics and upper-year students in: industrial relations, labour studies, labour history, law, political science, and sociology.
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description