Working Disasters

Addresses the politics of recognition in case studies of the long-haul trucking industry, repetitive strain injuries, and lung disease in miners. This text considers the politics of response in studies of a factory fire, the loss of an offshore oilrig, lung disease among miners, a mine explosion, and the prosecution of health and safety offences.

Eric Tucker

Preface CHAPTER 1. Introduction: The Politics of Recognition and Response Eric Tucker CHAPTER 2. Trucking Tragedies: The Hidden Disaster of Mass Death in the Long-Haul Road Transport Industry Michael Quinlan, Claire Mayhew, and Richard Johnstone CHAPTER 3. The Australian Epidemic of Repetition Strain Injury: A Sociological Perspective Andrew Hopkins 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 Richard Rennie CHAPTER 5. The Long Road to Action: The Silicosis Problem and Swedish Occupational Health and Safety Policy in the 20th Century Annette Thörnquist CHAPTER 6. Disaster, Meaning Making, and Reform in Antebellum Massachusetts Patricia Reeve CHAPTER 7. Regulating Safety, Regulating Profit: Cost-Cutting, Injury and Death in the British North Sea after Piper Alpha Dave Whyte CHAPTER 8. Courts, Crime, and Workplace Richard Johnstone CHAPTER 9. Blame and Causation in the Aftermath of Industrial Disasters: Nova Scotia's Coal Mines from 1858 to Westray Susan Dodd CHAPTER 10. Accountability and Reform in the Aftermath of the Westray Mine Explosion Eric Tucker Index