Safety or Profit?

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.

• List of Tables and ChartsAbbreviationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionDavid Walters and Theo NicholsPART I. ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING, LABOR MARKET STRATIFICATION, AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES FOR HEALTH AND SAFETYChapter 1. Precarity and Workplace Well-Being: A General ReviewMichael QuinlanChapter 2. A Gender Perspective on Work, Regulation, and Their Effects on Women’s Health, Safety and Well-BeingKatherine Lippel and Karen MessingPART II. NEW GOVERNANCE, ORGANIZED LABOR, DEREGULATION, DECRIMINALIZATION, AND THE NEO-LIBERAL AGENDAChapter 3. Resilience Within a Weaker Work Environment System—The Position and Influence of Swedish Safety RepresentativesKaj FrickChapter 4. Old Lessons for New Governance: Safety or Profit and the New Conventional WisdomEric TuckerChapter 5. Safety, Profits, and the New Politics of Regulation Steve Tombs and David WhyteChapter 6. Decriminalization of Health and Safety at Work in Australia Richard JohnstonePART III. THE ROLE AND LIMITS OF EVIDENCEChapter 7. Competing Interests at Play? The Struggle for Occupational Cancer Prevention in the UKAndrew WattersonChapter 8. The Limits and Possibilities of the Structures and Procedures for Health and Safety Regulation in Ontario, CanadaWayne LewchukChapter 9. From Piper Alpha to Deepwater HorizonCharles WoolfsonAfterword Theo Nichols and David WaltersReferences Meet the Contributors Index

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