Table of Contents

List of Tables and Charts

Abbreviations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction
David Walters and Theo Nichols

PART I. ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING, LABOR MARKET STRATIFICATION, AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES FOR HEALTH AND SAFETY

Chapter 1. Precarity and Workplace Well-Being: A General Review
Michael Quinlan

Chapter 2. A Gender Perspective on Work, Regulation, and Their Effects on Women’s Health, Safety and Well-Being
Katherine Lippel and Karen Messing

PART II. NEW GOVERNANCE, ORGANIZED LABOR, DEREGULATION, DECRIMINALIZATION, AND THE NEO-LIBERAL AGENDA

Chapter 3. Resilience Within a Weaker Work Environment System—The Position and Influence of Swedish Safety Representatives
Kaj Frick

Chapter 4. Old Lessons for New Governance: Safety or Profit and the New Conventional Wisdom
Eric Tucker

Chapter 5. Safety, Profits, and the New Politics of Regulation
Steve Tombs and David Whyte

Chapter 6. Decriminalization of Health and Safety at Work in Australia
Richard Johnstone

PART III. THE ROLE AND LIMITS OF EVIDENCE

Chapter 7. Competing Interests at Play? The Struggle for Occupational Cancer Prevention in the UK
Andrew Watterson

Chapter 8. The Limits and Possibilities of the Structures and Procedures for Health and Safety Regulation in Ontario, Canada
Wayne Lewchuk

Chapter 9. From Piper Alpha to Deepwater Horizon
Charles Woolfson

Afterword
Theo Nichols and David Walters

References

Meet the Contributors

Index

About the Author

Theo Nichols is Distinguished Research Professor at the Cardiff School of Social Sciences, UK, and an associate researcher at the Cardiff Work Environment Research Centre (CWERC). He has written widely on a variety of subjects in the general field of economic sociology--including class relations, management, and productivity--and has a special interest in labour relations in Turkey and China. He was one of the first sociologists in the UK to research health and safety at work, a field to which he has returned at various times since the publication, with Peter Armstrong, of Safety or Profit? in 1973.

David Walters is professor of Work Environment and Director of the Cardiff Work Environment Research Centre (CWERC), a Cardiff University research centre in the School of Social Sciences. His research and writing is on various aspects of the work environment, and he has particular interests in employee representation and consultation in healthy and safety, the politics of health and safety at work, regulating health and safety management, chemical risk management at work, and health and safety in small firms. His recent publications include Regulating Workplace Risks: A Comparative Study of Inspection Regimes in Times of Change (2011), Workplace Health and Safety: International Perspectives on Worker Representation (2009), and Within Reach? Managing Chemical Risks in Small Enterprises (2008). He is the editor of the international journal Policy and Practice in Health and Safety, is a member of the IOSH Research Committee, and has advised several state inquiries on health and safety.