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Remapping Worker Citizenship In Contemporary Occupational Health And Safety Regimes, Eric Tucker
Remapping Worker Citizenship In Contemporary Occupational Health And Safety Regimes, Eric Tucker
Eric M. Tucker
The article draws on the rapidly growing field of citizenship studies to map and explore the dynamics of contemporary occupational health and safety (OHS) regulation. Using two key dimensions of OHS regulation (protection and participation), the author constructs four ideal types of worker citizenship (market, public, private industrial, and public industrial citizens). Historically, workers have been written into OHS regulatory regimes in each of these ways. Most recently lawmakers have created a new species of OHS regimes, best described as mandated partial self-regulation. Its distinguishing characteristic is its flexibility, such that worker citizenship can take on any of the forms …
Worker Health And Safety Struggles: Democratic Possibilities And Constraints, Eric Tucker
Worker Health And Safety Struggles: Democratic Possibilities And Constraints, Eric Tucker
Eric M. Tucker
The central point of this article, written in 1995, was that health and safety struggles can be at the vanguard of challenges to a legal social order that tolerates poor labour standards and high levels of worker exploitation. Workers who fear their work is making them sick or subjecting them to high levels of injury and disablement know first-hand that the values of democracy, autonomy, equality and community are denied and not realized by current arrangements. By drawing on that experience and explicitly linking health and safety demands to an alternative vision of social justice, one in which workers enjoy …
And Defeat Goes On: An Assessment Of The Third Wave Of Health And Safety Regulation, Eric Tucker
And Defeat Goes On: An Assessment Of The Third Wave Of Health And Safety Regulation, Eric Tucker
Eric M. Tucker
No abstract provided.
The Persistence Of Market Regulation Of Occupational Health And Safety: The Stillbirth Of Voluntarism, Eric Tucker
The Persistence Of Market Regulation Of Occupational Health And Safety: The Stillbirth Of Voluntarism, Eric Tucker
Eric M. Tucker
No abstract provided.
Occupational Health And Safety Management Systems In The United Kingdom And Ontario, Canada: A Political Economy Perspective, Eric Tucker, Theo Nichols
Occupational Health And Safety Management Systems In The United Kingdom And Ontario, Canada: A Political Economy Perspective, Eric Tucker, Theo Nichols
Eric M. Tucker
No abstract provided.