[PDF] The Political Economy Of Workplace Injury In Canada eBook

Author : Bob Barnetson
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 33,72 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1926836006

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Workplace injuries are common, avoidable, and unacceptable. The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada reveals how employers and governments engage in ineffective injury prevention efforts, intervening only when necessary to maintain standard legitimacy. Barnetson sheds light on this faulty system, highlighting the way in which employers create dangerous work environments yet pour billions of dollars into compensation and treatment. Examining this dynamic clarifies the way in which production costs are passed on to workers in the form of workplace injuries.

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File Size : 37,18 MB
Release : 2010
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Workplace injuries are common, avoidable, and unacceptable. The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada reveals how employers and governments engage in ineffective injury prevention efforts, intervening only when necessary to maintain the standard legitimacy. Dr. Bob Barnetson sheds light on this faulty system, highlighting the way in which employers create dangerous work environments yet pour billions of dollars into compensation and treatment. Examining this dynamic clarifies the way in which production costs are passed on to workers in the form of workplace injuries.

Author : Jason Foster
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 19,45 MB
Release : 2016-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1771991844

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Workplace injuries happen every day and can profoundly affect workers, their families, and the communities in which they live. This textbook is for workers and students looking for an introduction to injury prevention on the job. Foster and Barnetson bring the field into the twenty-first century by including discussions of how precarious employment, gender, and ill-health can be better handled in Canadian OHS.

Author : Bob Barnetson
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 15,57 MB
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1771992417

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How does the current labour market training system function and whose interests does it serve? In this introductory textbook, Bob Barnetson wades into the debate between workers and employers, and governments and economists to investigate the ways in which labour power is produced and reproduced in Canadian society. After sifting through the facts and interpretations of social scientists and government policymakers, Barnetson interrogates the training system through analysis of the political and economic forces that constitute modern Canada. This book not only provides students of Canada’s division of labour with a general introduction to the main facets of labour-market training—including skills development, post-secondary and community education, and workplace training—but also encourages students to think critically about the relationship between training systems and the ideologies that support them.

Author : Rodrigo Finkelstein Ogueta
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,36 MB
Release : 2022
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Workplace injury information in capitalist societies, where workers' compensation systems (WCSs) prevail, appears as a collection of inductive indicators that measure the existence and degree of occupational health. This dissertation dissolves this form of appearance and presents an alternative view, where workplace injury information is treated as a social relation that has a history stretching back to the late nineteenth century. Situated within the field of political economy of information, this dissertation formulates the concept of injury information at work and contributes to the understanding of how it services a specific sector of the economy by constructing lost labour power for sale. It examines how injury information, as a group of signs that embody the substance of lost labour power, arose and developed, and how it fits into the capitalist mode of production. Overall, this dissertation reveals injury information as a historically social formation that operates as a class relation of exchange and distribution of lost labour power, namely, the value of the necessary means of repair, recovery and maintenance of injured wage labourers. It discloses how health protection, disease prevention and health promotion are de-prioritized with respect to the function of exchanging and distributing lost labour power.

Author : Rodrigo Finkelstein
Publisher : Studies in Critical Social Sciences
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,90 MB
Release : 2023-04-25
Category : Industrial accidents
ISBN : 9781642598179

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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.

Author : Alan Hall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 29,40 MB
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1000228096

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The Subjectivities and Politics of Occupational Risk links restructuring in three industries to shifts in risk subjectivities and politics, both within workplaces and within the safety management and regulative spheres, often leading to conflict and changes in law, political discourses and management approaches. The state and corporate governance emphasis on worker participation and worker rights, internal responsibility, and self-regulative technologies are understood as corporate and state efforts to reconstruct control and responsibility for Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) risks within the context of a globalized neoliberal economy. Part 1 presents a conceptual framework for understanding the subjective bases of worker responses to health and safety hazards using Bourdieu’s concept of habitus and the sociology of risk concepts of trust and uncertainty. Part 2 demonstrates the restructuring arguments using three different industry case studies of multiple mines, farms and auto parts plants. The final chapter draws out the implications of the evidence and theory for social change and presents several recommendations for a more worker-centred politics of health and safety. The book will appeal to social scientists interested in health and safety, work, employment relations and labour law, as well as worker advocates and activists.

Author : Jordan House
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 20,39 MB
Release : 2022-11-15T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1773635816

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Prisons don’t work, but prisoners do. Prisons are often critiqued as unjust, but we hear little about the daily labour of incarcerated workers — what they do, how they do it, who they do it for and under which conditions. Unions protect workers fighting for better pay and against discrimination and occupational health and safety concerns, but prisoners are denied this protection despite being the lowest paid workers with the least choice in what they do — the most vulnerable among the working class. Starting from the perspective that work during imprisonment is not “rehabilitative,” this book examines the reasons why people should care about prison labour and how prisoners have struggled to organize for labour power in the past. Unionizing incarcerated workers is critical for both the labour movement and struggles for prison justice, this book argues, to negotiate changes to working conditions as well as the power dynamics within prisons themselves.

Author : Theo Nichols
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 23,36 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1351860003

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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.