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A review essay on books by (1) Robert Johnson, Death Work: A Study of the Modern Execution Process (Belmont, CA: West/Wadsworth, 1998 [1990]); & (2) Stephen Trombley, The Execution Protocol (London: Century, 1993), which examine the institutional aspects of executions in the US. Johnson presents a thorough qualitative analysis of the contemporary execution process, drawing on interviews with death row officers to uncover the human emotions behind the daily routine of the extended waiting periods & ritualistic execution days. He also analyzes the role, compulsions, & emotional turmoil of the executioners in the bureaucratic procedure behind executions. Trombley offers a historical analysis of the US execution industry, focusing on the labor, technology, & scientific management involved in the process, seeking to understand the connection between mass production, technological progress, & institutionalized killing. Like Johnson, he analyzes how the horrific act of killing can be made routine through redundancy, technology, & the bureaucratic dispensation of roles. D. Bajo

Over the last decade there has been a substantial increase in stress‐related illnesses in industry. The most bizarre and yet worrying form of this development has come in the form of what the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health term "mass psychogenic illness". They define it as "the collective occurrences of physical symptoms and related beliefs among two or more persons in the absence of an identifiable pathogen". In other words, a situation in which a number of workers in a particular plant or factory develop what appears to be some mysterious disease although there is no clearly identified micro‐organism. The specific symptoms seem to vary from one industrial situation to another but they all consist of subjective somatic complaints, such as headaches, nausea, sleepiness, chills, etc.

Mode of access: Internet. ; 19__ prepared by the Forestry Section of the bureau's Industry and Merchandising Division as part of a series of Annual reports: v. 2, Manufacturing, (sect.A of pt. 10, Wood and paper products). ; 1917-1918 issued in the series of Sessional papers of the Parliament of Canada; 19__ in the bureau's Census of industry.

In recent years, political scientists have taken a greater interest in the relationship between government and industry. This article examines the specific relationship between the government and the tobacco industry in a structured fashion, so as to facilitate comparisons with other industries. Three factors which have shaped this relationship are examined: the pressures on government to intervene in the affairs of the industry; the complexity of the machinery of intervention; and the government's dependence on the industry's co-operation. Finally it is argued that the tobacco industry is in many respects similar to other industries and that consequently several points made during this article may well have wider significance.

Through interviews and photographs, this book presents the situation of women workers in Zimbabwe. The general discussion focuses on major issues facing women on industry, such as double work-loads, paid maternity leave, sexual harassment, training and promotion opportunities, and trade unions. Through their life histories, several women workers describe the problems they face and the ways in which they are working to overcome them. (Düi-En)

Industry culture and industry economy have been used, with mixed results, to explain violations of law by corporate enterprise. The purpose of this paper is to use these theoretical concepts to examine differential noncompliance with tax law across Swedish industry in the early 1980s. A measure of noncompliance by industry is developed using tax audit data. The impact of audit policy on measured noncompliance is evaluated. Differences in industry culture are indicated by information on the presence and diffusion of techniques for noncompliance. Differences across industries in incentives to violate are indicated by bankruptcy rates and opportunities to gain through noncompliance. A hypothetical model is offered that explains the dynamic interaction of these factors and that could generate the static results reported. The paper concludes with a discussion of industry‐level analysis in predicting corporate violations.