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pt. I. Economic restructuring, labor market stratification, and their consequences for health and safety -- pt. II. New governance, organized labor, deregulation, decriminalization, and the neo-liberal agenda -- pt. III. The role and limits of evidence.

Intro -- Safety or Profit -- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Charts -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING, LABOR MARKET STRATIFICATION, AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES FOR HEALTH AND SAFETY -- Chapter 1. Precarity and Workplace Well-Being: A General Review. -- Chapter 2. A Gender Perspective on Work, Regulation, and Their Effects on Women's Health, Safety and Well-Being -- 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 -- Chapter 4. Old Lessons for New Governance: Safety or Profit and the New Conventional Wisdom -- Chapter 5. Safety, Profits, and the New Politics of Regulation -- Chapter 6. Decriminalization of Health and Safety at Work in Australia -- PART III. THE ROLE AND LIMITS OF EVIDENCE -- Chapter 7. Competing Interests at Play? The Struggle for Occupational Cancer Prevention in the UK -- Chapter 8. The Limits and Possibilities of the Structures and Procedures for Health and Safety Regulation in Ontario, Canada -- Chapter 9. From Piper Alpha to Deepwater Horizon -- Afterword -- References -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.

Lives in Peril demonstrates how and why seafarers are a vulnerable group of workers. It argues they are made so by the organisation and structure of their employment; the prioritisation of profit over safety by the actors that engage and control their labour; the limits of enforcement of the regulatory framework that is in place to protect them; and by their weakness as collective actors in relation to capital. The consequences of this vulnerability are seen in data on their occupationally-related morbidity and mortality - evidence that probably only represents a partial picture of the actual extent of the physical, mental and emotional harm resulting from work at sea. This volume's central argument is that this situation is likely to remain broadly unchanged as long as global maritime governance and regulation remains in thrall to the neo-liberal economic and political arguments that drive globalisation, and fails to enforce regulatory standards more robustly.

Well-grounded in the history and theory of Anglo-American urbanism, this illustrated textbook sets out objectives, policies and design principles for planning new communities and redeveloping existing urban neighborhoods. Drawing from their extensive experience, the authors explain how better plans (and consequently better places) can be created by applying the three-dimensional principles of urban design and physical place-making to planning problems.Design First uses case studies from the authors' own professional projects to demonstrate how theory can be turned into effective practice, usin

A cutting edge look at the experience of worker representation in the employment relations of workplace health and safety. Examining the extent to which existing arrangements deliver results, this book reflects on whether the effectiveness of worker representation is eroded or enhanced by current regulatory and organizational constructs.

Towards the end of the twentieth century a number of changes occurred that suggest that organisational structures and management attitudes and behaviour in the foreseeable future will differ markedly from the traditional model. Not only had business become global in every respect, but in almost all markets end-user expectations were undergoing significant change which were forcing business to come to terms with demands for increased choice and quality, flexible ordering and servicing systems, on-line accessibility to suppliers and competitive prices. The response by business has been equally dramatic. Large organisations have reduced their activities down to core processes and capabilities, adopting the view that astute asset management and risk management are more about managing assets than about ownership. Consequently the largest international corporations can be seen divesting their non-core businesses and adopting holonic structures. The holonic approach has been adopted by entire industries giving rise to renewed interest in the development of mutually supporting clusters of interdependent interorganisational business systems.

This article presents an account of corporate strategies for occupational safety and health (OSH) management in container terminals operated by large global companies in four countries, and their delivery in the operation of terminal work activities. It indicates a substantial gap between these aims and approaches, their orientation at corporate and terminal management levels and the workers' experiences in the terminals. While this gap is evident everywhere, it is considerably more pronounced in the terminals of the low-income country included in the study. The article indicates that in day-to-day practice, OSH is principally addressed through behaviour control strategies that fail to reach many aspects of occupational health and safety that workers perceive as important. It further indicates that contractor workers are hardest hit by such practice and suggests a radical rethinking of corporate approaches to safety and health is required to justify the claim that they represent 'corporate core values'.