Workplace health and safety: international perspectives on worker representation

A cutting edge look at the experience of worker representation in the employment relations of workplace health and safety. Examining the extent to which existing arrangements deliver results, this book reflects on whether the effectiveness of worker representation is eroded or enhanced by current regulatory and organizational constructs. INDICE: Introduction: Representing Workers on Health and Safety in the Modern World of Work; T.Nichols ; D.Walters - PART I: REPRESENTING WORKERS ON HEALTH AND SAFETY: IMPLEMENTING THE 'PREFERRED MODEL' IN EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA - Worker Representation on Health and Safety in the UK: Problems With the Preferred Model and Beyond; T.Nichols ; D.Walters - Institutional Arrangements on Health and Safety Representation in Australia; R.Johnstone - France: The Impact of Health and Safety Representation in France: An Empirical Study; T.Coutrot - Spain: A Spanish Survey on the Activities of Safety Representatives; A.M.Garcia - An Afterword on European Union Policy and Practice; L.Vogel - PART II: CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES FOR WORKER REPRESENTATION IN THE MODERN WORLD OF WORK -Representing Workers on Health and Safety in Precarious Employment: Some Canadian Experiences; W.Lewchuck - Employee 'Voice' and Working Environment in Post-communist New Member States: An Empirical Analysis of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania; C.Woolfson - Health and Safety Representation and Small Firms: Reflections From Sweden; K.Frick - Trade Union Strategies to Support Representation on Health and Safety in Australia and the UK: Integration or Isolation? R.Loudoun ; D.Walters - Reflections; P.James

• ISBN: 978-0-230-21485-9
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 248
• Fecha Publicación: 29/10/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés