In almost any industry, the day-to-day lived experiences of workers directly shape production processes. Those experiences are of fundamental importance to a range of managerial concerns including organisational behaviour and human resource management, organisational safety and risk management,...

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: RISKS FROM NATURE -- 1 Fire Is Everybody's Problem -- 2 The Uncertainties of Disease -- 3 Doing Something about the Weather -- 4 Animal Risk for a Modern Age -- PART II: INDUSTRIALIZING RISK -- 5 Railroads, or Why Risk in a System...