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38 produkter
At the Point of Production
The Social Analysis of Occupational and Environmental Health
Häftad, 2017
922 kr
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"At the Point of Production", a compilation of contributions to "New Solutions Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health Policy", locates workers' health and safety problems in the broad political economy. It argues that without a deep understanding of the social/political/economic context …
Beyond Child's Play
Sustainable Product Design in the Global Doll-making Industry
Av Sally Edward
Häftad, 2017
787 kr
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Sustainable product design is more than eco design: it goes beyond 'green' to consider the work environment, community impacts, consumer health, and economic viability, as well as environmental attributes. "Beyond Child's Play" explores the concept of sustainable product design in the context of …
Dependent Convergence
The Struggle to Control Petrochemical Hazards in Brazil and the United States
Häftad, 2018
502 kr
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Comparative analyses of social actors and policy outcomes in Bahia and Texas show the similarities and differences in the actors and the policies adopted in each case. As a result of historical and structural developments in Bahia and Texas, Cetrel operates under pollution-control standards and …
Inside and Out
Universities and Education for Sustainable Development
Av Robert Forrant, Linda Silka
Häftad, 2017
545 kr
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Two overarching questions permeate the literature on universities and civic engagement: How does a university restructure its myriad activities, maintain its academic integrity, and have a transformative impact off campus? And, who ought to participate in the conversations that frame and guide both …
Labor-environmental Coalitions
Lessons from a Louisiana Petrochemical Region
Av Thomas Estabrook, Charles Levenstein m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
667 kr
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In 1984, the oil, chemical and atomic workers began a 5-year campaign to win back the jobs of its members locked out by the BASF Corp. in Geismar, Louisiana. The multiscale campaign involved coalitions with local environmentalists as well as international solidarity from environmental and religious …
Northern Exposures
A Canadian Perspective on Occupational Health and Environment
Av David Bennett, Charles Levenstein m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
922 kr
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'Northern Exposures' is an important and thought-provoking book that shows how the labor movement has embraced environmental protection and is beginning to create a new and more sustainable vision for the future. Dave Bennett's knowledge and commitment shine through. He is, by turns, the skeptical …
Shoes, Glues and Homework
Dangerous Work in the Global Footwear Industry
Av Pia Markkanen, Charles Levenstein m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
764 kr
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This book describes working conditions in informal sector shoemaking in Indonesia and the Philippines, their national and international policy implications. It provides information on glues, an organic solvent, found in footwear chemicals and women garment homeworkers in Bulacan.
Cotton Dust Papers
Science, Politics, and Power in the "Discovery" of Byssinosis in the U.S
Av Charles Levenstein, Gregory Delaurier m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
487 kr
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"The Cotton Dust Papers" is the story of the 50-year struggle for recognition in the U.S. of this pernicious occupational disease. The authors contend that byssinosis could have and should have been recognized much sooner, as a great deal was known about the disease as early as the 1930s. Using …
Who is Nursing Them? It is Us
Neoliberalism, HIV/AIDS, and the Occupational Health and Safety of South African Public Sector Nurses
Av Jennifer Zelnick, Charles Levenstein m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
787 kr
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This book explores the impacts of HIV/AIDS and neoliberal globalization on the occupational health of public sector hospital nurses in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The story of South African public sector nurses provides multiple perspectives on the HIV/AIDS epidemic-for a workforce that played a …
Within Reach?
Managing Chemical Risks in Small Enterprises
Häftad, 2017
757 kr
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Examines regulatory and other strategies for improving chemical risk management in small enterprises in the European Union. This book considers what supports are necessary to secure the implementation of these strategies and is particularly concerned with the role of chemical product supply as …
Working Disasters
The Politics of Recognition and Response
Av Eric Tucker
Häftad, 2016
824 kr
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Every day, workers are injured, made ill, or killed on the job. Most often, workers experience these harms individually and in isolation. Particular occurrences rarely attract much public attention beyond, perhaps, a small paragraph in the local newspaper. Instead, these events are normalized. This …
Barry Commoner's Contribution to the Environmental Movement
Science and Social Action
Av Mary Lee Dunn, David Kriebel
Inbunden, 2019
1521 kr
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Few people have made greater contributions to protecting and improving the environment than the scientist, teacher, activist Dr. Barry Commoner. For half a century, Dr. Commoner has been an international leader in the environmental movement. On the occasion of his eightieth birthday, a symposium …
Toxic Schoolhouse
Av Madeleine Kangsen Scammell, Charles Levenstein
Inbunden, 2017
2197 kr
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The Toxic Schoolhouse is a collection of articles on chemical hazards endangering students, teachers, and staff in the education system of the United States and Canada. Some of the articles were originally published in a special issue of New Solutions: A Journal of Occupational and Environmental …
Barry Commoner's Contribution to the Environmental Movement
Science and Social Action
Av Mary Lee Dunn, David Kriebel
Häftad, 2000
691 kr
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Few people have made greater contributions to protecting and improving the environment than the scientist, teacher, activist Dr. Barry Commoner. For half a century, Dr. Commoner has been an international leader in the environmental movement. On the occasion of his eightieth birthday, a symposium …
Cotton Dust Papers
Science, Politics, and Power in the "Discovery" of Byssinosis in the U.S
Av Charles Levenstein, Gregory Delaurier m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
1940 kr
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"The Cotton Dust Papers" is the story of the 50-year struggle for recognition in the U.S. of this pernicious occupational disease. The authors contend that byssinosis could have and should have been recognized much sooner, as a great deal was known about the disease as early as the 1930s. Using …
Working Disasters
The Politics of Recognition and Response
Av Eric Tucker
Inbunden, 2006
2586 kr
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Every day, workers are injured, made ill, or killed on the job. Most often, workers experience these harms individually and in isolation. Particular occurrences rarely attract much public attention beyond, perhaps, a small paragraph in the local newspaper. Instead, these events are normalized. This …
Metal Fatigue
American Bosch and the Demise of Metalworking in the Connecticut River Valley
Av Robert Forrant, Charles Levenstein m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
1222 kr
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On February 4, 1986, the lives of thousands of workers changed in ways they could only begin to imagine. On that day, United Technologies Corporation ordered the closure of the 76-year-old American Bosch manufacturing plant in Springfield, Massachusetts, capping a nearly 32-year history of job loss …
Who is Nursing Them? It is Us
Neoliberalism, HIV/AIDS, and the Occupational Health and Safety of South African Public Sector Nurses
Av Jennifer Zelnick, Charles Levenstein m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
2586 kr
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This book explores the impacts of HIV/AIDS and neoliberal globalization on the occupational health of public sector hospital nurses in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The story of South African public sector nurses provides multiple perspectives on the HIV/AIDS epidemic-for a workforce that played a …
Shoes, Glues and Homework
Dangerous Work in the Global Footwear Industry
Av Pia Markkanen, Charles Levenstein m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
2586 kr
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This book describes working conditions in informal sector shoemaking in Indonesia and the Philippines, their national and international policy implications. It provides information on glues, an organic solvent, found in footwear chemicals and women garment homeworkers in Bulacan.
Within Reach?
Managing Chemical Risks in Small Enterprises
Inbunden, 2007
2512 kr
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Examines regulatory and other strategies for improving chemical risk management in small enterprises in the European Union. This book considers what supports are necessary to secure the implementation of these strategies and is particularly concerned with the role of chemical product supply as …
Inside and Out
Universities and Education for Sustainable Development
Av Robert Forrant, Linda Silka
Inbunden, 2006
2441 kr
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Two overarching questions permeate the literature on universities and civic engagement: How does a university restructure its myriad activities, maintain its academic integrity, and have a transformative impact off campus? And, who ought to participate in the conversations that frame and guide both …
At the Point of Production
The Social Analysis of Occupational and Environmental Health
Inbunden, 2008
2586 kr
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"At the Point of Production", a compilation of contributions to "New Solutions Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health Policy", locates workers' health and safety problems in the broad political economy. It argues that without a deep understanding of the social/political/economic context …
Beyond Child's Play
Sustainable Product Design in the Global Doll-making Industry
Av Sally Edward
Inbunden, 2010
2586 kr
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Sustainable product design is more than eco design: it goes beyond 'green' to consider the work environment, community impacts, consumer health, and economic viability, as well as environmental attributes. "Beyond Child's Play" explores the concept of sustainable product design in the context of …
Environmental Unions
Labor and the Superfund
Av Craig Slatin
Häftad, 2009
517 kr
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During the 1970s and 1980s, a hazardous waste management industry emerged in the U.S., driven by government and polluting industry responses to a hazardous waste crisis. In 1979, labor unions began to seek federal health and safety protections for workers in that industry and for firefighters …
Northern Exposures
A Canadian Perspective on Occupational Health and Environment
Av David Bennett, Charles Levenstein m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
2586 kr
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'Northern Exposures' is an important and thought-provoking book that shows how the labor movement has embraced environmental protection and is beginning to create a new and more sustainable vision for the future. Dave Bennett's knowledge and commitment shine through. He is, by turns, the skeptical …
From Critical Science to Solutions
The Best of Scientific Solutions
Inbunden, 2012
2586 kr
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First Published in 2017. In this volume, the editor collected articles that primarily appeared in the “Scientific Solutions” section of New Solutions, A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy. The articles in the book are grouped into three general categories, starting with …
Safety or Profit?
International Studies in Governance, Change and the Work Environment
Av Theo Nichols, David Walters
Inbunden, 2014
2525 kr
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As the title Safety or Profit? suggests, health and safety at work needs to be understood in the context of the wider political economy. This book brings together contributions informed by this view from internationally recognized scholars. It reviews the governance of health and safety at work, …
Safety or Profit?
International Studies in Governance, Change and the Work Environment
Av Theo Nichols, David Walters
Häftad, 2014
1239 kr
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As the title Safety or Profit? suggests, health and safety at work needs to be understood in the context of the wider political economy. This book brings together contributions informed by this view from internationally recognized scholars. It reviews the governance of health and safety at work, …
Toxic Schoolhouse
Av Madeleine Kangsen Scammell, Charles Levenstein
Häftad, 2014
1372 kr
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The Toxic Schoolhouse is a collection of articles on chemical hazards endangering students, teachers, and staff in the education system of the United States and Canada. Some of the articles were originally published in a special issue of New Solutions: A Journal of Occupational and Environmental …
Great Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912
New Scholarship on the Bread & Roses Strike
Av Robert Forrant, Jurg Siegenthaler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
2586 kr
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"In Lawrence, Massachusetts, fully one-half of the population 14 years of age or over is employed in the woolen and worsted mills and cotton mills". Thus begins the federal government's Report on Strike of Textile Workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 . This book follows up, one hundred years …
