Working Disasters : The Politics of Recognition and Response

Intro -- WORKING DISASTERS: The Politics of Recognition and Response -- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- 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 -- A Selection of Titles From The: Work, Health and Environment Series -- Back Cover.