Still dying for a living : corporate criminal liability after the Westray Mine disaster / Steven Bittle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bittle, Steven, 1968-

Series:

Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)

Law & society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canada. Act to Amend the Criminal Code (Criminal Liability of Organizations).

Canada.

Westray Mine Disaster, Plymouth, Pictou, N.S., 1992.

Criminal liability of juristic persons--Canada.

Criminal liability of juristic persons.

Corporations--Corrupt practices--Canada.

Corporations.

Corporation law--Canada--Criminal provisions.

Corporation law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1992, a preventable explosion at the Westray Mine in Plymouth, Nova Scotia, killed twenty-six miners. More than a decade later, the government introduced revisions to the Criminal Code of Canada aimed at strengthening corporate criminal liability. Bill C-45, dubbed the Westray bill, requires employers to ensure a safe workplace and attributes criminal liability to organizations for seriously injuring or killing workers and/or the public. In Still Dying for a Living, Steven Bittle turns a critical eye on Canada's corporate criminal liability law. Interweaving Foucauldian and neo-Marxist literatures with in-depth interviews and parliamentary transcripts, Bittle reveals how various legal, economic, and cultural discourses surrounding the Westray bill downplayed the seriousness of workplace injury and death, effectively characterizing these crimes as regrettable but largely unavoidable accidents. As long as the primary causes of workplace injury and death are not properly scrutinized, Bittle argues, workers will continue to die in the pursuit of earning a living.

Contents:

Introduction / Janet Mosher and Joan Brockman

Welfare fraud : the constitution of social assistance as crime / Janet Mosher and Joe Hermer

Fraud against the public purse by health care professionals : the privilege of location / Joan Brockman

Pimatsowin Weyasowewina : our lives, others' laws / Lisa Chartrand and Cora Weber-Pillwax

Incivilities : the representations and reactions of French public housing residents in Montreal City / Frédéric Lemieux and Nadège Sauvêtre

The legalization of gambling in Canada / Colin S. Campbell, Timothy F. Hartnagel, and Garry J. Smith

Afterward / Marie-Andrée Bertrand.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7748-2359-3

1-283-62899-6

1-283-33563-8

9786613335630

9786613941442

0-7748-2361-5

OCLC:

758365863