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Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Social law > Public health & safety law
"Injury" offers the first sustained anthropological analysis and
critique of American injury law. The book approaches injury law as
a symptom of a larger American injury culture, rather than as a
tool of social justice or as a form of regulation. In doing so, it
offers a new understanding of the problematic role that law plays
in constructing Americans' relations with the objects they
consume.
Through lively historical analyses of consumer products and
workplace objects ranging from cigarettes to cheeseburgers and
computer keyboards to airbags, Jain lucidly illustrates the real
limits of the product safety laws that seek to redress consumer and
worker injury. The book draws from a wide range of materials to
demonstrate that American law sets out injury as an exceptional
state, one that can be redressed through imperfect systems of
monetary compensation. "Injury" demonstrates how laws are unable to
accommodate the ways in which physical differences among citizens
are imposed by the physical objects of culture that distribute risk
differently among populations. The book moves between detailed
accounts of individual legal cases; historical analyses of
advertising, product design, regulation, and legal history; and a
wide reading of cultural theory.
Drawing on an extensive knowledge of law and social theory,
this innovative book will be essential reading for anyone with an
interest in design, consumption, and the politics of injury.
This book shall be an introduction into the European Free Trade
Association (EFTA) as an international organization and, inter
alia, as a platform for its member states' relations with the EU
and for jointly negotiated Free Trade Agreements. EFTA - originally
set up by the UK - is an example of how countries that do not want
to be members of the EU can still have close links with it. EFTA is
a loose intragovernmental association of some economically highly
specialised, small and wealthy Western European small states which
have, until now, decided not to join the European Union (EU).
Essentially it is the platform for Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway
and Switzerland to coordinate their free trade policies as far as
possible. Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway also use EFTA, in
particular its Secretariat, to manage their membership of the
European Economic Area (EEA) and to adopt relevant legislation into
the Agreement. Particularly in the context of Brexit it should also
be noted that there are elements of the relations between the four
EFTA States and the EU which are not necessarily based on either
the EEA Agreement or the EU-Swiss Agreements. Until recently, EFTA
was considered an outdated model. However, since Brexit interest in
EFTA has increased. Where the subject was covered in the press, but
also in relevant statements by politicians, there was hardly any
distinction made between 'EFTA' and the 'EEA'. This book is not
about Brexit, rather it will correct certain misconceptions about
EFTA and provide a clear overview on what EFTA is: a platform for
the economic relations between its member states; a platform for
its member states' free trade policy and a platform for its member
states' relations with the EU. There will be food for thought on
the UK's future outside the EU.
This is a guide for students, legal practitioners and health
professionals, providing up-to-date, concise and comprehensive
coverage of medical law in Scotland. An ideal text for students new
to the subject or preparing for exams, it is also a useful resource
for doctors, nurses and other health care providers who need to
refresh or update their knowledge.
The recent pandemic has clarified the overwhelming connection
between the workplace and technology. With thousands of employees
suddenly forced to work at home, a large segment of the workforce
quickly received crash courses in videoconferencing and other
technologies, and society as a whole took a step back to redefine
what employment actually means. The virtual workplace is the
blending of brick-and-mortar physical places of business with the
advanced technologies that now make it possible for workers to
perform their duties outside of the office. Trying to regulate in
this area requires the application of decades old employment laws
to a context never even contemplated by the legislatures that wrote
those rules. This book explores the emerging issues of virtual
work-defining employment, litigating claims, aggregating cases,
unionizing workers, and preventing harassment-and provides clarity
to these areas, synthesizing the current case law, statutory rules,
and academic literature to provide guidance to workers and
companies operating in the technology sector.
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