The Industrial Relations of Occupational Health and Safety: A Labour Process Approach
- 1 June 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Labour and Industry
- Vol. 2 (2) , 317-333
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10301763.1989.10669073
Abstract
This paper explores the utility of labour process theory for analysing the industrial relations of occupational health and safety. It examines the relationship between the capitalist labour process (especially work organization), technological innovation and occupational health and safety. It argues that the ideological separation of occupational health and safety on one hand and industrial relations on the other has increasingly been overcome as the health and safety of working conditions has become a terrain on which contestation or resistance takes place.Keywords
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