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Safety or Profit? - International Studies in Governance, Change and the Work Environment (Hardcover)
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Safety or Profit? - International Studies in Governance, Change and the Work Environment (Hardcover)
Series: Work, Health and Environment Series
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As the title Safety or Profit? suggests, health and safety at work
needs to be understood in the context of the wider political
economy. This book brings together contributions informed by this
view from internationally recognized scholars. It reviews the
governance of health and safety at work, with special reference to
Australia, Canada, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Three main
aspects are discussed. The restructuring of the labor market: this
is considered with respect to precarious work and to gender issues
and their implications for the health and safety of workers. The
neoliberal agenda: this is examined with respect to the diminished
power of organized labor, decriminalization, and new governance
theory, including an examination of how well the
health-and-safety-at-work regimes put in place in many industrial
societies about forty years ago have fared and how distinctive the
recent emphasis on self-regulation in several countries really is.
The role of evidence: there is a dearth of evidence-based policy.
The book examines how policy on health and safety at work is
formulated at both company and state levels. Cases considered
include the scant regard paid to evidence by an official inquiry
into future strategy in Canada; the lack of evidence-based policy
and the reluctance to observe the precautionary principle with
respect to work-related cancer in the United Kingdom; and the
failure to learn from past mistakes in the Deepwater Horizon
disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
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