The sociology of industrial injury
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The sociology of industrial injury
（Employment and work relations in context series）
Mansell, 1997
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [220]-236) and index
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Description
A contribution to the study of industrial injury from the theoretical standpoint of political economy. Going beyond common sense and psychological explanations of "accidents", it focuses on injury rates rather than individual occurrences. Empirical research is presented.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Critical studies in accident theory: "accidents", absenteeism and the legacy of early post-war industrial sociology
- safety or profit? Robens and the conventional wisdom, (with Peter Armstrong)
- injuries/accidents and the social sciences today - psychology and economics
- injuries/accidents and the social sciences today -sociology and political economy. Part 2 Studies in structures and vulnerability: the 1974 Health and safety at work Act and its effects on British manufacturing, 1960-1985
- institutional correlates of injury at work - health and safety arrangements, trade unionism and size of employment unit
- labour-driven productivity and injuries to miners in Turkey, 1942-1990 (with Erol Kahveci)
- postscript.
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