Research Catalog

Title

Health and work under capitalism : an international perspective / edited by Vicente Navarro and Daniel M. Berman.

Publication

Farmingdale, N.Y. : Baywood Pub. Co., ©1983.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Navarro, Vicente.
• Berman, Daniel M.

Description

311 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Policy, politics, health, and medicine series ; 5

Uniform Title

Policy, politics, health, and medicine series ; 5.

Subject

• Medicine, Industrial
• Working class > Medical care
• Capitalism
• Cross-cultural studies
• Cross-Cultural Comparison
• Occupational Medicine
• capitalism
• Cross-cultural studies
• Capitalism
• Medicine, Industrial
• Working class > Medical care
• Berufskrankheit
• Internationaler Vergleich
• Aufsatzsammlung

Genre/Form

Collected Work

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction -- PART 1: IDEOLOGY IN OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE. Work, Ideology and Science: The Case of Medicine / Vicente Navarro ; Black Lung: The Social Production of Disease / Barbara Ellen Smith ; The Health Effects of Low-Dose Radiation on Atomic Workers: A Case Study of Employer-Directed Research / Theodor D. Sterling -- PART 2: THE NATURE OF WORK AND HEALTH. Work and General Psychological and Physical Well-Being / David Cobun ; Job Alienation and Well-Being / David Coburn ; The Use and Health Consequences of Shift Work / Dean Baker ; Impending Proliferation of Asbestos / Barry I. Castleman and Manuel J. Vera Vera -- PART 3: OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH IN DEVELOPED CAPITALIST COUNTRIES. The State of Industrial Ill-Health in the United Kingdom / R. Charles Clutterbuck ; Workers' Participation and Control in Italy: The Case of Occupational Medicine / Giorgio Assennato and Vicente Navarro ; Why Work Kills: A Brief History of Occupational Safety and Health in the United States / Daniel M. Berman ; Work, Disease, and Occupational Medicine in the Federal Republic of Germany / Hans-Ulrich Deppe -- PART 4: OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH IN UNDERDEVELOPED CAPITALIST COUNTRIES. Work and Health in Mexico / Asa Cristina Laurell ; Mortality and Working Conditions in Agriculture in Underdeveloped Countries / Asa Cristina Laurell ; A Historical and Socioeconomic Analysis of Occupational Safety and Health in India / J. V. Vilanilam ; The Export of Hazardous Factories to Developing Nations / Barry I. Castleman.

ISBN

• 0895030357
• 9780895030351

LCCN

82008715

OCLC

• ocm08476299
• 8476299
• SCSB-74425

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library