Nuclear Servitude : Subcontracting and Health in the French Civil Nuclear Industry

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Preface to the English Edition -- 1. The Effects of Ionizing Radiation: Questioning the Current Model -- The recommendations of the European Committee on Radiation Risks -- Critical discussion of the ECRR recommendations at the French Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire -- International epidemiological study of the effects of low-dose radiation exposure in a work environment -- 2. Maintenance, Sub-Contracting, Job Instability and Uncertainty, and Radiation Protection: How Are They Evolving? -- Increasingly Precarious Employment and Health: Invisibility and the Erosion of Rights -- What Changes In the Last 10 Years in the Situation of Workers Doing Radiation-Exposed Maintenance in Nuclear Plants? -- Conclusion -- Introduction -- The "Underside"? "Outside" Workers? -- Socio-economic insecurity and subcontracting -- Subcontracting and workplace health and safety -- Industrial Risk Management and Social Relations in the Workplace -- "The Alert" -- Human error -- Safety as a social construction -- Industrial accidents as a sociology research problem -- Research Methodology And Procedure -- Preliminary stage -- Hypotheses -- Research methods -- The study -- Analysis of legislation and in-house radiation protection -- Part I: Working under the Threat Of Exposure to Ionizing Radiation -- Chapter 1: Three Nuclear Industry Maintenance Jobs -- Valve-And-Pipe Mechanics -- Work content -- Constructing qualification: What training, what work recognition, what recognition for know-how and certified /skills? -- Non-Destructive Equipment Inspection Specialists -- Work content -- Constructing qualification: What training, what work recognition, what recognition for know-how and certified skills? -- "Nuclear Servitude" Workers.