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The language of risk : conflicting perspectives on occupational health / edited by Dorothy Nelkin.

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The language of risk : conflicting perspectives on occupational health / edited by Dorothy Nelkin.
Publication
Beverly Hills : Sage Publications, c1985.

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Nelkin, Dorothy
Description
200 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
Collection of essays on attitudes to occupational safety and occupational health in the USA - discusses trade union attitudes and management attitudes as reflected in terminology, disclosure of information, the terms used by journalists and industrial physicians, administrative aspects, legal aspects, and safety and health policy, to illustrate the conflicting interests arising from social status, political ideology, economic role and occupational bias. References.
Series Statement
Sage focus editions ; vol. 71
Uniform Title
Sage focus editions vol. 71.
Subject
  • Industrial hygiene > United States
  • Industrial safety > United States
  • Working class > United States > Attitudes
  • Chemicals > Health aspects
  • Occupational Health
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • reference.
  • référence bibliographique.
  • referencia.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 0803924666
  • 0803924674 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^85002211^
OCLC
  • 11841730
  • SCSB-10108935
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library