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Layers Of Vulnerability In Occupational Health And Safety For Migrant Workers: Case Studies From Canada And The Uk, Eric Tucker, Malcolm Sargeant
Layers Of Vulnerability In Occupational Health And Safety For Migrant Workers: Case Studies From Canada And The Uk, Eric Tucker, Malcolm Sargeant
Eric M. Tucker
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Diverging Trends In Worker Health And Safety Protection And Participation In Canada, 1985-2000, Eric Tucker
Diverging Trends In Worker Health And Safety Protection And Participation In Canada, 1985-2000, Eric Tucker
Eric M. Tucker
Despite the comprehensiveness of neo-liberal restructuring in Canada, it has not proceeded uniformly in its timing or outcomes across regulatory fields and political jurisdictions. The example of occupational health and safety (OHS) regulation is instructive. This article compares recent OHS developments in five Canadian jurisdictions, Alberta, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Ontario and the Federal jurisdiction. It finds that despite the adoption of a common model by all jurisdictions, there has recently been considerable divergence in the way that the elements of worker participation and protection have been combined. Modified power resource theory is used to explain a portion of this …
The Determination Of Occupational Health And Safety Standards In Ontario 1860-1982: From Markets To Politics To...?, Eric Tucker
The Determination Of Occupational Health And Safety Standards In Ontario 1860-1982: From Markets To Politics To...?, Eric Tucker
Eric M. Tucker
The author reviews the historical development of the decision-making frameworks within which courts and the Legislature have made choices regarding the allocation of risks to health and safety in the workplace. Arguing that this development has been conditioned by the necessity of satisfying in a capitalist democracy conflicting demands to facilitate capital accumulation and to justify to the electorate the manner in which choices regarding the structure of the processes of production have been made, the author contends that recent pressure to adopt cost-benefit analysis to satisfy the demands of legitimation and accumulation, and challenges its adequacy as a normative …