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050	0	0	_aHD7658 _b.R4 1981
100	1		_aReasons, Charles E.,
245	1	0	_aAssault on the worker : _boccupational health and safety in Canada / _cCharles E. Reasons, Lois L. Ross, Craig Paterson ; with a foreword by Robert Sass.
260			_aToronto : _bButterworths, _cc1981.
300			_axvi, 312 p. : _bill. ; _c23 cm.
500			_aIncludes index.
505			_aPart 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.
650		0	_aIndustrial hygiene
650		0	_aIndustrial safety
650		0	_aWorkers' compensation
700	1		_aRoss, Lois L.
700	1		_aPaterson, Craig.
942			_cBK