The Point of Production: Work Environment in Advanced Industrial Societies (Democracy & ecology series) (Paperback)

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"In this important book, two leading advocates of more direct action to improve the work environment offer an analysis of the way in which production and work are affected by the changes in the international economic order, that is, of evolving political structures and interactions....What this book offers is a perspective for the study of the forces and actors working together and affecting each other at the point of production....The book is written in a fluid manner and will, no doubt, become an important tool for those in formal training in occupational health. This book offers to students in the occupational and environmental fields a concise and up-to-date panorama of the politics of occupational heath and is particularly valuable for the historic analysis that helps us to understand how the current crisis evolved. The book might be used as a text in both graduate and undergraduate courses of occupational and environmental health, engineering and other related fields. The most important contribution of this text, however, is the Marxist approach to the study of the work environment, expanding the traditional occupational heath literature to include health and safety in the workplace....Would also be interesting and useful for workers, unions, and the general public....The book may be especially valuable as an introductory primer to an important area that is usually absent from traditional coursework in economics....This book also provides an important example of how political economy can use critical analysis to shape strategies for moving beyond our current problems."-- Review of Radical Political Economics

, .."essentialreading for anyone who wants to understand the political economy of work injuries. Wooding and Levenstein are astute, compassionate and compelling observers of workplace safety issues and health. Their work should be championed as a valuable antidote to the prevailing 'worker at fault' paradigm and market driven apologetics." -- The National Workplace Injury Litigator

"[A] concise, well-written book....This interesting and provocative book is recommended for graduate students and teachers of industrial sociology and business." -- Choice

"Chapters provide much food for thought for any involved in business and safety." -- The Bookwatch


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Integrates theory, data, and case examples which analyze the workplace and its safety battles. The book examines the point of production; situating issues of occupational and environmental health within their political, economic & social context.

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The most telling and significant changes in the national and international economic order in the past twenty years-the growth of new markets and the disappearance of old ones, new technologies, new competitors, demographic shifts, and shifts in investment-all directly affect production and work. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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