The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada
Title | The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada PDF eBook |
Author | Bob Barnetson |
Publisher | Athabasca University Press |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1926836006 |
Workplace injuries are common, avoidable, and unacceptable. The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada reveals how employers and governments engage in ineffective injury prevention efforts, intervening only when necessary to maintain standard legitimacy. Barnetson sheds light on this faulty system, highlighting the way in which employers create dangerous work environments yet pour billions of dollars into compensation and treatment. Examining this dynamic clarifies the way in which production costs are passed on to workers in the form of workplace injuries.
Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada
Title | Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada PDF eBook |
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Release | 2010 |
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Workplace injuries are common, avoidable, and unacceptable. The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada reveals how employers and governments engage in ineffective injury prevention efforts, intervening only when necessary to maintain the standard legitimacy. Dr. Bob Barnetson sheds light on this faulty system, highlighting the way in which employers create dangerous work environments yet pour billions of dollars into compensation and treatment. Examining this dynamic clarifies the way in which production costs are passed on to workers in the form of workplace injuries.
Health and Safety in Canadian Workplaces
Title | Health and Safety in Canadian Workplaces PDF eBook |
Author | Jason Foster |
Publisher | Athabasca University Press |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2016-07-31 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1771991844 |
Workplace injuries happen every day and can profoundly affect workers, their families, and the communities in which they live. This textbook is for workers and students looking for an introduction to injury prevention on the job. Foster and Barnetson bring the field into the twenty-first century by including discussions of how precarious employment, gender, and ill-health can be better handled in Canadian OHS.
Canada’s Labour Market Training System
Title | Canada’s Labour Market Training System PDF eBook |
Author | Bob Barnetson |
Publisher | Athabasca University Press |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2018-11-20 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1771992417 |
How does the current labour market training system function and whose interests does it serve? In this introductory textbook, Bob Barnetson wades into the debate between workers and employers, and governments and economists to investigate the ways in which labour power is produced and reproduced in Canadian society. After sifting through the facts and interpretations of social scientists and government policymakers, Barnetson interrogates the training system through analysis of the political and economic forces that constitute modern Canada. This book not only provides students of Canada’s division of labour with a general introduction to the main facets of labour-market training—including skills development, post-secondary and community education, and workplace training—but also encourages students to think critically about the relationship between training systems and the ideologies that support them.
Injury Information at Work
Title | Injury Information at Work PDF eBook |
Author | Rodrigo Finkelstein Ogueta |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022 |
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Workplace injury information in capitalist societies, where workers' compensation systems (WCSs) prevail, appears as a collection of inductive indicators that measure the existence and degree of occupational health. This dissertation dissolves this form of appearance and presents an alternative view, where workplace injury information is treated as a social relation that has a history stretching back to the late nineteenth century. Situated within the field of political economy of information, this dissertation formulates the concept of injury information at work and contributes to the understanding of how it services a specific sector of the economy by constructing lost labour power for sale. It examines how injury information, as a group of signs that embody the substance of lost labour power, arose and developed, and how it fits into the capitalist mode of production. Overall, this dissertation reveals injury information as a historically social formation that operates as a class relation of exchange and distribution of lost labour power, namely, the value of the necessary means of repair, recovery and maintenance of injured wage labourers. It discloses how health protection, disease prevention and health promotion are de-prioritized with respect to the function of exchanging and distributing lost labour power.
Lost-Time Injury Rates
Title | Lost-Time Injury Rates PDF eBook |
Author | Rodrigo Finkelstein |
Publisher | Studies in Critical Social Sciences |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023-04-25 |
Genre | Industrial accidents |
ISBN | 9781642598179 |
Workplace compensation has become an industry unto itself. What are its relations of production and role in contemporary capitalism? In Lost-Time Injury Rates Rodrigo Finkelstein examines the information-intensive operations of recording and processing work-related accidents, diseases and fatalities carried out by Workers' Compensation Systems. Situated within the field of political economy of information, this critique contributes to the understanding of how injury rates service a specific sector of the economy by constructing lost labour power for sale. Finkelstein convincingly argues that injury rates must be seen as grounded in the capitalist mode of production, and that they constitute a historical social relation that, by taking the semblance of inductive indicators, conceal specific capitalist relations that bring about the exchange and distribution of lost labour power among capitalists and wage labourers.
Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems in the United Kingdom and Ontario, Canada
Title | Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems in the United Kingdom and Ontario, Canada PDF eBook |
Author | Theo Nichols |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 1999 |
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