Assault on the worker : (Record no. 2730)
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| fixed length control field | 04625nam a2200205 a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 0409857769 (pbk.) : |
| 050 00 - CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | HD7658 |
| Item number | .R4 1981 |
| 100 1# - AUTHOR | |
| Personal name | Reasons, Charles E., |
| 245 10 - TITLE | |
| Title | Assault on the worker : |
| Remainder of title | occupational health and safety in Canada / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Charles E. Reasons, Lois L. Ross, Craig Paterson ; with a foreword by Robert Sass. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION INFORMATION | |
| Place of publication | Toronto : |
| Name of publisher | Butterworths, |
| Year of publication | c1981. |
| 300 ## - DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xvi, 312 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill. ; |
| Dimensions | 23 cm. |
| 500 ## - NOTES | |
| General note | Includes index. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Table of Content | Part I. Introduction --<br/>Chapter 1. Your money and your life --<br/>On the nature of violence in Canada --<br/>It's a crime --<br/>Profile: stolen health --<br/>Whose risk? Who pays? --<br/>Part II. Description of the problem --<br/>Chapter 2. On killing and injuring at work --<br/>Wining the West and losing lives --<br/>Industry kills: digging your own grace --<br/>On dying in the woods --<br/>Social class and occupational death --<br/>Injury and assault in the workplace --<br/>Profile: the walking wounded --<br/>Chapter 3. Chemical assault in the workplace --<br/>Diseases and compensation --<br/>Identifying health hazards --<br/>Cancer at work --<br/>Nuclear age, new diseases --<br/>Asbestos: the political economy of lying and dying --<br/>Profile: the rude awakening --<br/>Chapter 4. Work-related stress --<br/>Work as a social problem --<br/>A variety of stressors --<br/>Noise as a stressor --<br/>Stress and heart disease --<br/>"Take this job and shove it" --<br/>One more for the road to alienation --<br/>Institutionalizing booze --<br/>Harassment as stress; stress as harassment --<br/>Learn to "cope" --<br/>the buzzword --<br/>Chapter 5. Women's work/women's health --<br/>Workmen's compensation --<br/>A woman's place is --<br/>Women's work --<br/>Hidden dangers in the office --<br/>The hazzards of "sweat shops" --<br/>Profile: a dime a dozen --<br/>The assault on future generations --<br/>Chapter 6. Farming may be dangerous to your health --<br/>Some hazards of farming --<br/>Chemical assault on the farm worker --<br/>Assault on grain workers --<br/>Grain dust: farmers' asbestos --<br/>Farm workers unite --<br/>Profile: "You think you have a cold ..." --<br/>Part III. Current solutions --<br/>Chapter 7. The "dumb worker": blaming the victim --<br/>Explaining health hazards --<br/>The political ideology of being safe: "accident proneness" --<br/>Doing a number on the worker --<br/>Unsafe acts: doing violence to workers --<br/>The victim's perspective --<br/>Hypersusceptibility: the new "hype" --<br/>Profile: "the company says 'get out'" --<br/>It's all in your head --<br/>"Compensation cadillac" --<br/>"Alive": The ideology of the "dumb worker" --<br/>The buck stops where? --<br/>Chapter 8. Is workers' compensation for the worker? --<br/>Historical origins --<br/>WCBs as contemporary bureaucracies --<br/>Complaints mount --<br/>The politics of the WCB --<br/>WCBs are big business --<br/>Assessments on employers --<br/>promoting safety and health? --<br/>Chapter 9. Workers' compensation: too few, too late, too little --<br/>Lack of comprehensive coverage --<br/>Waiting periods: be patient --<br/>Compensation ceilings and payment limits --<br/>Inadequate compensation --<br/>earnings --<br/>Job security and rehabilitation --<br/>Profile: "nothing more than serfs" --<br/>Industrial diseases: tragic neglect --<br/>Chapter 10. Law and order in the workplace --<br/>There ought to be a law --<br/>On coddling criminals --<br/>It's a "real" crime --<br/>Whose cost? Whose benefit? --<br/>Policing the workplace --<br/>Part IV. Alernative approaches --<br/>Chaper 11. Workers' health and workers' history --<br/>Introduction --<br/>Hours of labour --<br/>The resource economy: work camps, relief camps, prisons --<br/>Workers' fatalities and coroners' inquests --<br/>Industrial first aid: A workers' health issue --<br/>Chapter 12. Community struggles --<br/>W.O.S.H. --<br/>The Union of Injured Workers --<br/>United Injured and Disabled Workers' Association --<br/>East Montreal Group --<br/>The 3 Rs of workers' health --<br/>Profile: "The sentence" --<br/>Appendix A.A worker-oriented guide to government, union, and community assistance --<br/>Workers' and public sources --<br/>Trade union sources --<br/>Government or private sources --<br/>Appendix B. Canadian workers' compensation boards --<br/>Appendix C. Selected sources and documents of workers' compensation --<br/>Major references --<br/>Minor references --<br/>Appendix D. Selected legal source materials on Canadian Occupational Health and Safety laws --<br/>Appendix E. Selected Canadian books and articles on workers' health, 1974-80 --<br/>Major references --<br/>Minor references --<br/>Appendix F. Selected workers' health films --<br/>Canada --<br/>United States --<br/>Index. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECTS | |
| Topical Term | Industrial hygiene |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECTS | |
| Topical Term | Industrial safety |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECTS | |
| Topical Term | Workers' compensation |
| 700 1# - OTHER AUTHORS | |
| Personal name | Ross, Lois L. |
| 700 1# - OTHER AUTHORS | |
| Personal name | Paterson, Craig. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Reference | Methodist University Library Main | Methodist University Library Main | General Stacks | 21/11/2006 | HD7658 .R4 1981 | 25105 | Books |