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Still Dying for a Living

Corporate Criminal Liability After the Westray Mine Disaster

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

AvSteven Bittle

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In 1992, a preventable explosion at the Westray Mine in Plymouth, Nova Scotia, killed twenty-six miners. More than a decade later, the government introduced revisions to the Criminal Code of Canada aimed at strengthening corporate criminal liability. Bill C-45, dubbed the Westray bill, requires employers to ensure a safe workplace and attributes criminal liability to organizations for seriously injuring or killing workers and/or the public.In Still Dying for a Living, Steven Bittle turns a critical eye on Canada's corporate criminal liability law. Interweaving Foucauldian and neo-Marxist literatures with in-depth interviews and parliamentary transcripts, Bittle reveals how various legal, economic, and cultural discourses surrounding the Westray bill downplayed the seriousness of workplace injury and death, effectively characterizing these crimes as regrettable but largely unavoidable accidents. As long as the primary causes of workplace injury and death are not properly scrutinized, Bittle argues, workers will continue to die in the pursuit of earning a living.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-10-16
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt520 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieLaw and Society
Antal sidor268
FörlagUniversity of British Columbia Press
ISBN9780774823593
UtmärkelserWinner of Outstanding Publication of the year, National White Collar Crime Consortium (NWCCC) 2014

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Foreword: The Struggle for Corporate Accountability / Steve TombsPreface1 Introduction: What Is Crime?2 Criminal Liability and the Corporate Form3 Theorizing Corporate Harm and Wrongdoing4 Constituting the Corporate Criminal through Law5 Visions of Economic Grandeur: The Influence of Corporate Capitalism6 Obscuring Corporate Crime and the Corporate Criminal7 Disciplining Capital: More of the Same or Hope for the Future?AppendicesNotesReferencesIndex