1st Edition
Safety or Profit? International Studies in Governance, Change and the Work Environment
List of Tables and Charts
Abbreviations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
David Walters and Theo Nichols
PART I. ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING, LABOR MARKET STRATIFICATION, AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES FOR HEALTH AND SAFETY
Chapter 1. Precarity and Workplace Well-Being: A General Review
Michael Quinlan
Chapter 2. A Gender Perspective on Work, Regulation, and Their Effects on Women’s Health, Safety and Well-Being
Katherine Lippel and Karen Messing
PART II. NEW GOVERNANCE, ORGANIZED LABOR, DEREGULATION, DECRIMINALIZATION, AND THE NEO-LIBERAL AGENDA
Chapter 3. Resilience Within a Weaker Work Environment System—The Position and Influence of Swedish Safety Representatives
Kaj Frick
Chapter 4. Old Lessons for New Governance: Safety or Profit and the New Conventional Wisdom
Eric Tucker
Chapter 5. Safety, Profits, and the New Politics of Regulation
Steve Tombs and David Whyte
Chapter 6. Decriminalization of Health and Safety at Work in Australia
Richard Johnstone
PART III. THE ROLE AND LIMITS OF EVIDENCE
Chapter 7. Competing Interests at Play? The Struggle for Occupational Cancer Prevention in the UK
Andrew Watterson
Chapter 8. The Limits and Possibilities of the Structures and Procedures for Health and Safety Regulation in Ontario, Canada
Wayne Lewchuk
Chapter 9. From Piper Alpha to Deepwater Horizon
Charles Woolfson
Afterword
Theo Nichols and David Walters
References
Meet the Contributors
Index
Biography
Theo Nichols, David Walters
