At the Point of Production: The Social Analysis of Occupational and Environmental Health - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 089503381X ISBN 13 : 9780895033819

Editeur : Baywood Publishing Company Inc, 2008

Synopsis

Locates workers' health and safety problems in the broad political economy. This title argues that without a deep understanding of the social/political/economic context of particular industries or workplaces, we cannot fully grasp the process of recognition and control of industrial hazards.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Charles Levenstein, Ph.D., M.Sc., is an economist and policy analyst. He is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Work Environment, University of Massacchusetts, Lowell, retiring from teaching in 2003, and is adjunct professor of occupational health at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Levenstein is one of the leading researchers concerned with social factors in occupational and environmental health. He chairs the advisory committee for United Steel Workers federally funded projects and for The New England Consortium, and he served on the IOM/NAS Committee on Health and Safety Needs of Older Workers. His most recent book (with Greg deLaurier and Mary Lee Dunn), The Cotton Dust Papers (2002), concerns the 50-year struggle for recognition of byssinosis ("brown lung") in the United States. Dr. Levenstein is Editor Emeritus of New Solutions, a quarterly peer-reviewed journal of occupational and environmental health policy, and coeditor of Baywood Publishing Company's Work, Health and Environment Series. He is a recipient of the American Public Health Association's award for lifetime contribution to occupational health.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Baywood Publishing Company Inc
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 089503381X
• ISBN 13: 9780895033819
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 238
• Éditeur: Levenstein Charles
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