Lost-Time Injury Rates - A Marxist Critique of Workers' Compensation Systems (Paperback)

Workplace compensation has become an industry unto itself. What are its relations of production and role in contemporary capitalism? In Lost-Time Injury Rates Rodrigo Finkelstein examines the information-intensive operations of recording and processing work-related accidents, diseases and fatalities carried out by Workers' Compensation Systems. Situated within the field of political economy of information, this critique contributes to the understanding of how injury rates service a specific sector of the economy by constructing lost labour power for sale. Finkelstein convincingly argues that injury rates must be seen as grounded in the capitalist mode of production, and that they constitute a historical social relation that, by taking the semblance of inductive indicators, conceal specific capitalist relations that bring about the exchange and distribution of lost labour power among capitalists and wage labourers.

General

Imprint:	Haymarket Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies in Critical Social Sciences
Release date:	May 2023
Authors:	Rodrigo Finkelstein
Dimensions:	228 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	246
ISBN-13:	978-1-64259-817-9
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Industrial relations & safety > Industrial relations > Industrial arbitration & negotiation Promotions
LSN:	1-64259-817-8
Barcode:	9781642598179

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