The Regulation and Management of Workplace Health and Safety: Historical and Emerging Trends

ISBN-13: 9780367211448 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 212 str.

Peter Sheldon; Sarah Gregson; Russell D. Lansbury

Opis

Featuring research from Australia, Europe and North America, this collection of cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary research-based chapters on work, workers and the regulation and management of workplace health and safety explores important historical examples and emerging contemporary trends in international and historical perspectives.

Spis treści

1. Michael Quinlan — intellectual journey of a scholar, teacher and policy expert  2. Rebellious Workers: Insubordination and democratic mobilisation in Australia in the 1910s  3. The West Gate Bridge Collapse: How disaster happens  4. Economic liberalisation of road freight transport in the EU and the USA  5. Precarious employment and the regulation of occupational health and safety: Prevention, compensation and return to work  6. Protecting ‘gig economy’ workers through regulatory innovation: Controlling contract networks within digital networks  7. Representing workers on safety and health: the current challenge?  8. Prosecutions under the Australian Work Health and Safety Acts: New sanctions, old approaches  9.Postscript: Inequality, deprivation/resistance and building a sustainable society