
Life and Death at Work
Industrial Accidents as a Case of Socially Produced Error
Tom Dwyer(Author)
Plenum Publishing Co.,N.Y.
Published on 31. October 1991
Book
Hardback
XV, 318 pages
978-0-306-43949-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book benefited from the financial support of a French Government scholarship between 1976 and 1978. It sponsored a doctoral thesis in which initial theoretical, empirical, and historical reflections on acci- dents were developed and written while I was a student at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. The New Zealand Depart- ment of Labour funded a study on industrial accidents and night work during 1979-80. In 1982-83, the award of a postdoctoral fellowship by the University of Canterbury (New Zealand) permitted a first version of this book to be finished. In the summer of 1986-87 the Funda~ao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP) and the Labora- toire d'Ergonomie et de Neurophysiologie du Travail of the Centre Na- tional des Arts et Metiers joined forces to fund a stay in Paris where the second draft of this book was presented in a special doctoral seminar series. The third draft was completed during a 1988 research leave granted by the Conjunto de Ciencia Politica of the Universidade Es- tadual de Campinas (UNICAMP).
On a further research leave from the same unit, and thanks to a postdoctoral fellowship from the Brazilian Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnol6gico (CNPq), final redrafting was carried out between August and October 1990 when I was a visiting fellow in the Science, Technology, and Society Program at Cornell University. I am deeply grateful to these institutions for their generosity.
On a further research leave from the same unit, and thanks to a postdoctoral fellowship from the Brazilian Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnol6gico (CNPq), final redrafting was carried out between August and October 1990 when I was a visiting fellow in the Science, Technology, and Society Program at Cornell University. I am deeply grateful to these institutions for their generosity.
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Edition
1991 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Springer Science+Business Media
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Research
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XV, 318 p.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
676 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-306-43949-0 (9780306439490)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4899-0606-9
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Content
1 From Sin to Social Peace: The Origins of the Modern Treatments of Industrial Accidents.- 2 From Peace to Rupture: Development and Crisis of Modern Solutions.- 3 A Sociological Theory of Industrial Accidents.- 4 Methods and Research Design.- 5 Testing the Sociological Theory.- 6 Readjusting the Prism: Remaking the Modern?.- Afterword.