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Representing workers on occupational safety and health: some lessons from a largely ignored history

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  • David Walters
  • Michael Quinlan

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The decade from 1970 witnessed major reforms of occupational health and safety (OSH) laws in Western Europe, North America and Australasia. The establishment of worker representation in OSH was one of their most significant features. Largely overlooked in commentary then or since however was the fact that worker representation in safety had a far longer history, having operated in coal mining from a century earlier in some countries. The purpose of this paper is not so much to fill this historical gap as to examine this earlier development in terms of its contribution to better understand worker representation in OSH at the present time.

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  • David Walters & Michael Quinlan, 2019. "Representing workers on occupational safety and health: some lessons from a largely ignored history," Industrial Relations Journal, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 50(4), pages 399-414, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:indrel:v:50:y:2019:i:4:p:399-414
    DOI: 10.1111/irj.12268
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    1. David Parry & David Waddington & Chas Critcher, 1997. "Industrial Relations in the Privatized Mining Industry," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, vol. 35(2), pages 173-196, June.
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    1. David Walters & Michael Quinlan, 2019. "Voice and resistance: Coalminers’ struggles to represent their health and safety interests in Australia and New Zealand 1871–1925," The Economic and Labour Relations Review, , vol. 30(4), pages 513-531, December.

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