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Assault on the worker : occupational health and safety in Canada / Charles E. Reasons, Lois L. Ross, Craig Paterson ; with a foreword by Robert Sass.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Toronto : Butterworths, c1981.Description: xvi, 312 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0409857769 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HD7658 .R4 1981
Contents:
Part I. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Your money and your life -- On the nature of violence in Canada -- It's a crime -- Profile: stolen health -- Whose risk? Who pays? -- Part II. Description of the problem -- Chapter 2. On killing and injuring at work -- Wining the West and losing lives -- Industry kills: digging your own grace -- On dying in the woods -- Social class and occupational death -- Injury and assault in the workplace -- Profile: the walking wounded -- Chapter 3. Chemical assault in the workplace -- Diseases and compensation -- Identifying health hazards -- Cancer at work -- Nuclear age, new diseases -- Asbestos: the political economy of lying and dying -- Profile: the rude awakening -- Chapter 4. Work-related stress -- Work as a social problem -- A variety of stressors -- Noise as a stressor -- Stress and heart disease -- "Take this job and shove it" -- One more for the road to alienation -- Institutionalizing booze -- Harassment as stress; stress as harassment -- Learn to "cope" -- the buzzword -- Chapter 5. Women's work/women's health -- Workmen's compensation -- A woman's place is -- Women's work -- Hidden dangers in the office -- The hazzards of "sweat shops" -- Profile: a dime a dozen -- The assault on future generations -- Chapter 6. Farming may be dangerous to your health -- Some hazards of farming -- Chemical assault on the farm worker -- Assault on grain workers -- Grain dust: farmers' asbestos -- Farm workers unite -- Profile: "You think you have a cold ..." -- Part III. Current solutions -- Chapter 7. The "dumb worker": blaming the victim -- Explaining health hazards -- The political ideology of being safe: "accident proneness" -- Doing a number on the worker -- Unsafe acts: doing violence to workers -- The victim's perspective -- Hypersusceptibility: the new "hype" -- Profile: "the company says 'get out'" -- It's all in your head -- "Compensation cadillac" -- "Alive": The ideology of the "dumb worker" -- The buck stops where? -- Chapter 8. Is workers' compensation for the worker? -- Historical origins -- WCBs as contemporary bureaucracies -- Complaints mount -- The politics of the WCB -- WCBs are big business -- Assessments on employers -- promoting safety and health? -- Chapter 9. Workers' compensation: too few, too late, too little -- Lack of comprehensive coverage -- Waiting periods: be patient -- Compensation ceilings and payment limits -- Inadequate compensation -- earnings -- Job security and rehabilitation -- Profile: "nothing more than serfs" -- Industrial diseases: tragic neglect -- Chapter 10. Law and order in the workplace -- There ought to be a law -- On coddling criminals -- It's a "real" crime -- Whose cost? Whose benefit? -- Policing the workplace -- Part IV. Alernative approaches -- Chaper 11. Workers' health and workers' history -- Introduction -- Hours of labour -- The resource economy: work camps, relief camps, prisons -- Workers' fatalities and coroners' inquests -- Industrial first aid: A workers' health issue -- Chapter 12. Community struggles -- W.O.S.H. -- The Union of Injured Workers -- United Injured and Disabled Workers' Association -- East Montreal Group -- The 3 Rs of workers' health -- Profile: "The sentence" -- Appendix A.A worker-oriented guide to government, union, and community assistance -- Workers' and public sources -- Trade union sources -- Government or private sources -- Appendix B. Canadian workers' compensation boards -- Appendix C. Selected sources and documents of workers' compensation -- Major references -- Minor references -- Appendix D. Selected legal source materials on Canadian Occupational Health and Safety laws -- Appendix E. Selected Canadian books and articles on workers' health, 1974-80 -- Major references -- Minor references -- Appendix F. Selected workers' health films -- Canada -- United States -- Index.
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Includes index.

Part I. Introduction --
Chapter 1. Your money and your life --
On the nature of violence in Canada --
It's a crime --
Profile: stolen health --
Whose risk? Who pays? --
Part II. Description of the problem --
Chapter 2. On killing and injuring at work --
Wining the West and losing lives --
Industry kills: digging your own grace --
On dying in the woods --
Social class and occupational death --
Injury and assault in the workplace --
Profile: the walking wounded --
Chapter 3. Chemical assault in the workplace --
Diseases and compensation --
Identifying health hazards --
Cancer at work --
Nuclear age, new diseases --
Asbestos: the political economy of lying and dying --
Profile: the rude awakening --
Chapter 4. Work-related stress --
Work as a social problem --
A variety of stressors --
Noise as a stressor --
Stress and heart disease --
"Take this job and shove it" --
One more for the road to alienation --
Institutionalizing booze --
Harassment as stress; stress as harassment --
Learn to "cope" --
the buzzword --
Chapter 5. Women's work/women's health --
Workmen's compensation --
A woman's place is --
Women's work --
Hidden dangers in the office --
The hazzards of "sweat shops" --
Profile: a dime a dozen --
The assault on future generations --
Chapter 6. Farming may be dangerous to your health --
Some hazards of farming --
Chemical assault on the farm worker --
Assault on grain workers --
Grain dust: farmers' asbestos --
Farm workers unite --
Profile: "You think you have a cold ..." --
Part III. Current solutions --
Chapter 7. The "dumb worker": blaming the victim --
Explaining health hazards --
The political ideology of being safe: "accident proneness" --
Doing a number on the worker --
Unsafe acts: doing violence to workers --
The victim's perspective --
Hypersusceptibility: the new "hype" --
Profile: "the company says 'get out'" --
It's all in your head --
"Compensation cadillac" --
"Alive": The ideology of the "dumb worker" --
The buck stops where? --
Chapter 8. Is workers' compensation for the worker? --
Historical origins --
WCBs as contemporary bureaucracies --
Complaints mount --
The politics of the WCB --
WCBs are big business --
Assessments on employers --
promoting safety and health? --
Chapter 9. Workers' compensation: too few, too late, too little --
Lack of comprehensive coverage --
Waiting periods: be patient --
Compensation ceilings and payment limits --
Inadequate compensation --
earnings --
Job security and rehabilitation --
Profile: "nothing more than serfs" --
Industrial diseases: tragic neglect --
Chapter 10. Law and order in the workplace --
There ought to be a law --
On coddling criminals --
It's a "real" crime --
Whose cost? Whose benefit? --
Policing the workplace --
Part IV. Alernative approaches --
Chaper 11. Workers' health and workers' history --
Introduction --
Hours of labour --
The resource economy: work camps, relief camps, prisons --
Workers' fatalities and coroners' inquests --
Industrial first aid: A workers' health issue --
Chapter 12. Community struggles --
W.O.S.H. --
The Union of Injured Workers --
United Injured and Disabled Workers' Association --
East Montreal Group --
The 3 Rs of workers' health --
Profile: "The sentence" --
Appendix A.A worker-oriented guide to government, union, and community assistance --
Workers' and public sources --
Trade union sources --
Government or private sources --
Appendix B. Canadian workers' compensation boards --
Appendix C. Selected sources and documents of workers' compensation --
Major references --
Minor references --
Appendix D. Selected legal source materials on Canadian Occupational Health and Safety laws --
Appendix E. Selected Canadian books and articles on workers' health, 1974-80 --
Major references --
Minor references --
Appendix F. Selected workers' health films --
Canada --
United States --
Index.

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