1st Edition
The Subjectivities and Politics of Occupational Risk Mines, Farms and Auto Factories
1. Introduction and Research Methods
Part 1: Risk Subjectivities and Practices
2. Identifying Hazards and Judging Risk
3. Taking Risks or Taking a Stand: Interests, Power and Identity
Part 2: Case Studies of Health and Safety in Hard Rock Mining, Family Farming and Auto Parts Manufacturing
4. Transforming the Mining Labour Process: Transforming Risk and its Social Construction
5. Reconstructing Miner Consent: Management Objectives and Strategies
6. The Transformation and Fragmentation of Canadian Agriculture
7. Health and Safety in Farming
8. The Transformation of Production and Health and Safety in Auto Parts Manufacturing.
9. Participation and Control in a Non-Union Auto Parts Firm
10. Conclusion and Implications for Change
Biography
Alan Hall recently retired from the Department of Sociology at Memorial University where he now holds an Honorary Research Professor position. His most recent 2020 publications are a co-authored book on employment standards published by University of Toronto Press, and an article in Economic and Industrial Democracy on vulnerable workers.
"Over the years, Alan Hall has made a significant contribution to this literature, especially with understandings based on research findings concerning how worker representatives act in order to deliver their roles effectively. Through the use of a mixture of theoretically informed, qualitative and quantitative methods, he, along with others, helped to establish a robust understanding of the ways in which representation and consultation on work health and safety risks and the arrangements to manage them can operate to give workers some chance that their voice may be heard. His ideas concerning "knowledge activism," for example, have been especially central to this understanding and useful in their application to a host of work situations beyond the Canadian contexts in which they were originally developed."
David Walters, Cardiff University, UK
