Administering Danger in the Workplace : : The Law and Politics of Occupational Health and Safety Regulation in Ontario 1850–1914 / / Eric Tucker.
For Ontario workers during the industrial revolution the workplace was often an environment of terrible danger. Injuries and illness from unsafe working conditions were commonplace. Over time these conditions spurred efforts for reform from activists, legislators, and the courts. But change was slow...
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Tucker, Eric, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Administering Danger in the Workplace : The Law and Politics of Occupational Health and Safety Regulation in Ontario 1850–1914 / Eric Tucker. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019] ©1990 1 online resource (320 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Heritage Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- ADMINISTERING DANGER IN THE WORKPLACE -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Paying the 'Butcher Bill': Industrialization and Workers' Health -- 3. Courting Risk: The Establishment of Market Regulation -- 4. The Politics of Ontario's Factory Legislation: Part 1 -- 5. The Politics of Ontario's Factory Legislation: Part n -- 6. The Implementation of Ontario's Factory Legislation 1886-1900 -- 7. Factory Regulation in the Second Industrial Revolution -- 8. Conclusion -- APPENDIX A -- APPENDIX B -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star For Ontario workers during the industrial revolution the workplace was often an environment of terrible danger. Injuries and illness from unsafe working conditions were commonplace. Over time these conditions spurred efforts for reform from activists, legislators, and the courts. But change was slow in coming. To understand the impact of industrial revolution on the health and safety of workers generally, and on women and children in particular, tucker uses their testimony before various commissions, newspapers, and reported court cases. Initial efforts to effect change were made through the courts; they were largely unsuccessful. When the judiciary refused to regulate the risk-creating conduct of employers, through either the civil or the criminal law, workers and Victorian reformers found common ground in successfully promoting factory legislation. By prescribing and enforcing minimum standards, a measure of regulatory responsibility for the health of workers generally and women and children in particular was shifted from the market to the state. Class interest and gender ideology played a substantial role in this process. But the legislation’s implementation belied its promise. The government was unwilling to provide adequate enforcement resources and inspectors accepted the conventional wisdom that workers had to adjust to the ‘normal’ hazards of industry, which were reasonable and, therefore, legal. Even when the accident rate began to soar as a result of the ‘second industrial revolution,’ the authorities remained complacent. Tucker says that in industrial capitalist social formation, the nature and degree of hazards to which workers are exposed are determined largely by the employer-worker balance of power. Their respective power resources both shape and are shaped by the ideological, legal, political, and administrative environment in which they are deployed. Throughout the last half of the nineteenth century and up to the First World War, state regulation of occupational health and safety was substantially subordinated to market-driven forces; it still is today. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Factory laws and legislation Ontario History. Industrial hygiene Law and legislation Ontario History. Industrial safety Law and legislation Ontario History. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 9783110490947 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487574970 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487574970 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781487574970.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- ADMINISTERING DANGER IN THE WORKPLACE -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Paying the 'Butcher Bill': Industrialization and Workers' Health -- 3. Courting Risk: The Establishment of Market Regulation -- 4. The Politics of Ontario's Factory Legislation: Part 1 -- 5. The Politics of Ontario's Factory Legislation: Part n -- 6. The Implementation of Ontario's Factory Legislation 1886-1900 -- 7. Factory Regulation in the Second Industrial Revolution -- 8. Conclusion -- APPENDIX A -- APPENDIX B -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index |
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