At the Point of Production: The Social Analysis of Occupational and Environmental Health
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At the Point of Production: The Social Analysis of Occupational and Environmental Health
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781351845793 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Publication date: | 07/28/2017 |
| Series: | Work, Health and Environment Series |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 252 |
| File size: | 2 MB |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Introduction, Charles Levenstein
SECTION 1. GLOBALIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 1. Work and Health in the Global Economy: Lessons from Developing and Industrialized Countries on the Impact of Work on Health
C. Eduardo Siqueira, Blanca Lemus, and Charles Levenstein
Chapter 2. New Points of Production: Homework and Shoemaking in Asia
Pia Markkanen and Charles Levenstein
Chapter 3. Robbers Aboard: Workplace Violence and (In)Security in Public Transport in Salvador, Brazil
Eduardo Paes Machado and Charles Levenstein
SECTION 2. ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS
Chapter 4. The Story of the Alar Ban: Politics and Unforeseen Consequences
Beth Rosenberg
Chapter 5. Health and Safety Organizing: OCAW'S Worker-to-Worker Health and Safety Training Program
Craig Slatin
Chapter 6. Low-Hanging Fruit: Social Values and Industry Discretion in Toxics Use Reduction Policy
Richard Campbell and Charles Levenstein
Chapter 7. Joint Occupational and Environmental Pollution Prevention Strategies: A Model for Primary Prevention
Karla Armenti, Rafael Moure-Eraso, Craig Slatin, and Ken Geiser
SECTION 3. GENDER
Chapter 8. Sexual Harassment: Labor Relations by Other Means
Eve Spangler
Chapter 9. Gender and Cleaner Production: Toward a Framework for Including Gender Analysis When Developing Strategies and Designing Solutions
Sally Edwards and Margaret Quinn
Chapter 10. The Boston-Area HASWIC Research Circle: An Innovative Participatory Method for Coloring in the Picture of a Special Work Environment
Susan Moir and Lenore S. Azaroff
SECTION 4. ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS
Chapter 11. Good Practice Guidelines for Occupational Health Research Funded by the Private Sector
Margaret Quinn, Charles Levenstein, and Gregory F. DeLaurier
Index
What People are Saying About This
"Point of Production explored important new territory in understanding the place of occupational health and safety in the context of the broad political economy. The authors were creative in their application of systems analysis and identified the marked changes occurring as globalization progressed. But much was hypothetical. In this follow-up monograph, At the Point of Production, Charles Levenstein has gathered an excellent group of essays that expand on the ideas in the earlier work, with respect particularly to aspects related to economic development, gender, ethics, and the environment. The contributions are designed both to explore the implications of the model presented in the earlier monograph and to understand much better how the rapidly changing world has affected workers' health and opened avenues of opportunity for positive change that were not previously evident. This work is essential for all serious students of political economy and of workers' health."--(David Wegman, Dean of Health and Environment, School of Health and Environment, University of Massachusetts, Lowell)
"This volume provides an insightful, thought-provoking analysis of critically important issues in occupational and environmental health."--(Barry S. Levy, M.D., M.P.H., Adjunct Professor of Public Health, Tufts University School of Medicine, Past President, American Public Health Association)
"From its analysis of stick-up artists on city buses in Brazil to its discussion of the work of the women who glue together Nikes and Adidas in the Philippines, At the Point of Production takes a fascinating look at the health threats to workers in the U.S. and abroad. I strongly recommend Professor Levenstein's book to teachers, labor unionists, and health educators."--(Dan Berman, author of Death On the Job)
"At the Point of Production shines a much-needed spotlight on a host of current and critical issues-from the impact of privatization to sexual harassment in the workplace. This book is sure to stimulate discussion and opportunities for action."--(Marcy Goldstein-Gelb, Executive Director, Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health)
"Theoretically, ideally, work-related deaths and physical, mental, and moral injuries, many severe and lasting, are all preventable. Yet these personal and societal losses continue, worldwide, affecting many millions of workers and their families every year. How can this be? This scientifically sound and scholarly thorough collection, edited by Charles Levenstein, goes a long way toward answering this question and points out some of the ways workers and their unions can better organize to educate and protect themselves. The field of Workers' Health and Safety (WHS) in the Capitalist World System is inherently adversarial. The bosses and their surrogates (managers, supervisors, agents, corporate lawyers, business agents, etc.) do what they do in order to make a buck off the work of those they employ. The workers, whether protected by a good union or not, hope to provide the basics of living for themselves and their families, plus a little bit more (not only bread, but roses too). If the owners can cut costs, including expensive health and safety items - for example, an air-purifying system, effective right at the point of production where the welding flames touch the metal and produce toxic fumes - then they will do it, and perhaps substitute a look-good but unsafe general air-circulation system. To fight this, workers need to join together in effective, democratically controlled unions, and they need top-notch WHS experts working for and educating them. This book offers a framework to understand how WHS problems occur in our increasingly interdependent, exploitative world and offers promising ways of struggling toward the day when women and men workers of every ethnic origin andnationality will trust that their days at work will be safe and healthy."--(Ray Elling, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of Health Sociology, UConn Health Center, Farmington, CT)