Dying To Work: Death And Injury In The American Workplace
by Jonathan D. Karmel /
2017 / English / PDF
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InDying to Work
Dying to Work, Jonathan Karmel raises our awareness of
unsafe working conditions with accounts of workers who were
needlessly injured or killed on the job. Based on heart-wrenching
interviews Karmel conducted with injured workers and surviving
family members across the country, the stories in this book are
introduced in a way that helps place them in a historical and
political context and represent a wide survey of the American
workplace, including, among others, warehouse workers, grocery
store clerks, hotel housekeepers, and river dredgers.
, Jonathan Karmel raises our awareness of
unsafe working conditions with accounts of workers who were
needlessly injured or killed on the job. Based on heart-wrenching
interviews Karmel conducted with injured workers and surviving
family members across the country, the stories in this book are
introduced in a way that helps place them in a historical and
political context and represent a wide survey of the American
workplace, including, among others, warehouse workers, grocery
store clerks, hotel housekeepers, and river dredgers.
Karmel’s examples are portraits of the lives and dreams cut short
and reports of the workplace incidents that tragically changed
the lives of everyone around them.
Karmel’s examples are portraits of the lives and dreams cut short
and reports of the workplace incidents that tragically changed
the lives of everyone around them.Dying to Work
Dying to Work includes
incidents from industries and jobs that we do not commonly
associate with injuries and fatalities and highlights the risks
faced by workers who are hidden in plain view all around us.
While exposing the failure of safety laws that leave millions of
workers without compensation and employers without any meaningful
incentive to protect their workers, Karmel offers the reader some
hope in the form of policy suggestions that may make American
workers safer and employers more accountable. This is a book for
anyone interested in issues of worker health and safety, and it
will also serve as the cornerstone for courses in public policy,
community health, labor studies, business ethics, regulation and
safety, and occupational and environmental health policy.
includes
incidents from industries and jobs that we do not commonly
associate with injuries and fatalities and highlights the risks
faced by workers who are hidden in plain view all around us.
While exposing the failure of safety laws that leave millions of
workers without compensation and employers without any meaningful
incentive to protect their workers, Karmel offers the reader some
hope in the form of policy suggestions that may make American
workers safer and employers more accountable. This is a book for
anyone interested in issues of worker health and safety, and it
will also serve as the cornerstone for courses in public policy,
community health, labor studies, business ethics, regulation and
safety, and occupational and environmental health policy.