Injury and the new world of work / edited by Terrence Sullivan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sullivan, Terrence, Author.

Contributor:

Sullivan, Terrence James, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Workers' compensation.

Occupational diseases.

Industrial accidents.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Over the last fifty years the nature of work and work injury has changed dramatically. Since the 1980s, workers' compensation claims have grown steadily and insurance institutions are feeling the crunch. In Injury and the New World of Work, Terrence Sullivan emphasizes the precarious line between the expansion of needs-based justice and the preservation of work-based prosperity. The contributors to the book represent the fields of public health, sociology, anthropology, epidemiology, nursing, psychiatry, management, economics, public policy, and labour studies. They explore four general challenges to the workplace and the compensation system: the dramatic rise in disability associated with the changing nature of work; methods of preventing injury and disability; the need for rehabilitation; and the difficulty of reconciling fairness for workers and economic sustainability in a competitive era. Injury and the New World of Work examines a broad range of research solutions and policy options for dealing with the critical state of workers' compensation. The essays draw on recent case studies and original empirical work from Canada, situating the book within a comparative international frame of reference.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Restating Disability or Disabling the State: Four Challenges

The Industrial-Epidemiological Shift

From Chainsaws to Keyboards: Injury and Industrial Disease in British Columbia

Workforce and Workplace Change: Implications for Injuries and Compensation

Women, Work, and Injury

Prevention

The Importance of Psychosocial Risk Factors in Injury

Ergonomic Interventions for Reducing Musculoskeletal Disorders

Firm-Level Organizational Practices and Work Injury

Joint Health and Safety Committees: Finding a Balance

Rehabilitation and Return to Work

Staging Treatment Interventions following Soft Tissue Injuries

The Natural History and Effective Treatment of Chronic Pain from Musculoskeletal Injury

Effective Disability Management and Return-to-Work Practices

Entitlement, Fairness, and Sustainability

Determining Occupational Disorder: Can This Camel Carry More Straw?

Fatality Benefits: Rationale and Practice

Psychiatric Disability and Workers' Compensation

Categories of Injury and Disease

Gender Differences in Work Exposure and Injury

Bradford Hill's Criteria for Assessing Evidence of Causation

Fatality Benefit Comparisons

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-11188-8

9786613111883

0-7748-5212-7

OCLC:

243567070