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Title: Toil and Toxics: Workplace Struggles and Political Strategies for Occupational Health
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Robinson, James C. |
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Toil and Toxics: Workplace Struggles and Political Strategies for Occupational Health Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991 Cohort(s): Young Men, Young Women Publisher: University of California Press Keyword(s): Health Factors; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Job Hazards; Quality of Employment Survey (QES); Working Conditions Society must struggle to come to terms with the health risks of substances that are central to many production processes in the economy. The wide variation in injury and illness rates across occupations is striking. In seeking to understand worker responses to safety and health risks and to examine the extent that workers perceive their jobs as hazardous, data from three national surveys conducted over the past two decades have queried workers concerning their exposure to health and safety hazards on the job. The 1977 Quality of Employment Survey (QES) asked 1,515 workers a large number of questions concerning the characteristics of their jobs, including thirteen questions on exposure to different types of health and safety hazards. The 1978 and 1980 National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS), asked two questions relating to health and safety hazards and can be combined to provide a relatively balanced portrait of the U.S. work force. The 1984 Louis Harris survey (AFL) asked one question concerning exposure to health and safety hazards. The responses to the specific questions of the three surveys are tabulated throughout the work and cross tabbed with various categories of workers. |
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Robinson, James C. Toil and Toxics: Workplace Struggles and Political Strategies for Occupational Health. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991. |