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Workers At Risk

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  • Nelkin, Dorothy
  • Brown, Michael S.

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Workers at Risk is a powerful and moving documentary of workers routinely exposed to toxic chemicals. Products and services we all depend on—glass bottles, computers, processed foods and fresh flowers, dry cleaning, medicines, even sculpture and silkscreened toys—are produced by workers in constant contact with more than 63,000 commercial chemicals. For many of them, the risk of death is a way of life. More than seventy of them speak here of their jobs, their health, and the difficult choices they face in coming to grips with the responsibilities, risks, fears, and satisfactions of their work. Some struggle for information and acknowledgment of their health risks; others struggle to put out of their minds the dangers they know too well. Through extensive interviews, the authors have captured in these voices that double bind of the chemical worker: "If I had known that it would be that lethal, that it could give me or one of my children cancer, I would have refused to work. But it's a matter of survival and we just don't consider all these things. Meanwhile, we've got to make money to survive."

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  • Nelkin, Dorothy & Brown, Michael S., 1984. "Workers At Risk," University of Chicago Press Economics Books, University of Chicago Press, number 9780226571270, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucp:bkecon:9780226571270
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    1. Alejandro Donado, 2015. "Why Do Unionized Workers Have More Nonfatal Occupational Injuries?," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 68(1), pages 153-183, January.
    2. Vivienne Walters & Ted Haines, 1988. "Workers' Use and Knowledge of the 'Internal Responsibility System': Limits to Participation in Occupational Health and Safety," Canadian Public Policy, University of Toronto Press, vol. 14(4), pages 411-423, December.
    3. Nieuwenhuizen, Th.M., 1989. "Dynamical properties of 2D systems with site disorder," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 157(3), pages 1101-1138.
    4. Brown, Judy, 2009. "Democracy, sustainability and dialogic accounting technologies: Taking pluralism seriously," CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOUNTING, Elsevier, vol. 20(3), pages 313-342.
    5. Smirnov, Anatoly Yu. & Dubkov, Alexander A., 1996. "Anomalous non-gaussian diffusion in small disordered rings," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 232(1), pages 145-161.
    6. Alan Hall & Rebecca Hall & Nicole Bernhardt, 2022. "Dealing with ‘vulnerable workers’ in precarious employment: Front-line constraints and strategies in employment standards enforcement," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 43(1), pages 469-494, February.

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