Working Disasters : The Politics of Recognition and Response.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction: The Politics of Recognition and Response -- Chapter 2. Trucking Tragedies: The Hidden Disaster of Mass Death in the Long-Haul Road Transport Industry -- Chapter 3. The Australian Epidemic of Repetition Strain Injury: A Sociological Perspective -- Chapter 4. "All Part of the Game": The Recognition of and Response to an Industrial Disaster at the Fluorspar Mines, St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, 1933-1978 -- Chapter 5. The Long Road to Action: The Silicosis Problem and Swedish Occupational Health and Safety Policy in the 20th Century -- Chapter 6. Disaster, Meaning Making, and Reform in Antebellum Massachusetts -- Chapter 7. Regulating Safety, Regulating Profit: Cost-Cutting, Injury and Death in the British North Sea after Piper Alpha -- Chapter 8. Courts, Crime, and Workplace Disaster -- Chapter 9. Blame and Causation in the Aftermath of Industrial Disasters: Nova Scotia's Coal Mines from 1858 to Westray -- Chapter 10. Accountability and Reform in the Aftermath of the Westray Mine Explosion -- Contributors -- Index.

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