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- Title
The corporate construction of occupational health and safety: A labour process analysis.
- Authors
Hall, Alan
- Abstract
A theoretical framework for understanding corporate programs in health and safety is developed and applied within a specific case study of a mining company. The analysis shows that corporate efforts to transform the labour process play a critical role in the development of health and safety as a major corporate interest. Emphasis is placed on linking changes in occupational risk assessment and control to a number of competing production, cost, and labour control problems largely created within the context of the company's efforts to transform the labour process and labour relations. The specific character of these problems and the contradictory demands which they place on management are understood as shaping the different organizational, political, and ideological aspects of the corporate health and safety program.
- Subjects
INDUSTRIAL hygiene; RISK assessment; MINING corporations; LABOR policy; INDUSTRIAL costs; ENVIRONMENTAL health
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 1993, Vol 18, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0318-6431
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3340836