Life and Death at Work

Industrial Accidents as a Case of Socially Produced Error
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 1991
ISBN: 978-1-4899-0608-3
Verlag: Springer US

Buch, Englisch, 318 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 511 g

Reihe: Springer Studies in Work and Industry

This book benefited from the financial support of a French Government scholarship between 1976 and 1978. It sponsored a doctoral thesis in which initial theoretical, empirical, and historical reflections on acci­ dents were developed and written while I was a student at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. The New Zealand Depart­ ment of Labour funded a study on industrial accidents and night work during 1979-80. In 1982-83, the award of a postdoctoral fellowship by the University of Canterbury (New Zealand) permitted a first version of this book to be finished. In the summer of 1986-87 the Funda~ao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP) and the Labora­ toire d'Ergonomie et de Neurophysiologie du Travail of the Centre Na­ tional des Arts et Metiers joined forces to fund a stay in Paris where the second draft of this book was presented in a special doctoral seminar series. The third draft was completed during a 1988 research leave granted by the Conjunto de Ciencia Politica of the Universidade Es­ tadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). On a further research leave from the same unit, and thanks to a postdoctoral fellowship from the Brazilian Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnol6gico (CNPq), final redrafting was carried out between August and October 1990 when I was a visiting fellow in the Science, Technology, and Society Program at Cornell University. I am deeply grateful to these institutions for their generosity.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dwyer, Tom

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Epidemiologie, Medizinische Statistik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft: Theorie & Allgemeines
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 From Sin to Social Peace: The Origins of the Modern Treatments of Industrial Accidents.- 2 From Peace to Rupture: Development and Crisis of Modern Solutions.- 3 A Sociological Theory of Industrial Accidents.- 4 Methods and Research Design.- 5 Testing the Sociological Theory.- 6 Readjusting the Prism: Remaking the Modern?.- Afterword.