Injury at Work in UK Law
- Dying to Work: Death and Injury in the American Workplace, by Jonathan D. Karmel. ILR Press, Ithaca, NY, 2017, 264 pp., ISBN: 978‐1501709982, Price £34.00, hardback.
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The Economic Consequences of Accidents at Work
This paper investigates the economic consequences of workplace accidents in the British labour market. For the empirical analysis, I use data on employment and earnings from the British Household P...... ... First, employment probabilities following a state of injury are significantly low er. This ef fect persists over time and is stronger in those regions where unemployment rate is higher ... Second, a serious ... ...
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Police and Security Officer Experiences of Occupational Violence and Injury in Australia
This study employed national workers' compensation data to examine and compare the nature and prevalence of work-related injuries and occupational violence experienced by Australian security office...... ... Association Limited,Sydney.ABSTRACTThis study employed national workers com-pensation data to examine and compare thenature and prevalence of work-related injuriesand occupational violence experienced by Aus-tralian security ofcers and police between 2000and 2008. The study found that while ... ...
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Book Review: Beyond criminology: Taking harm seriously
... ... , murderfalls only ‘when a group gains more self worth, power, work, education and opportunity’(p. 190) ... Here we begin to unlock a ... 2million worldwide every year documented by Tombs (‘Workplace injury and death’). Iflittle of this extreme violence features in ... ...
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Union Derecognition in Britain in the 1980s
... ... to provide legal services to members in cases of injury at work, unfair dismissal, etc. The employer may or may not ... ...
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Kicking Corporate Bodies and Damning Their Souls
... ... being killed and seriously injured in their places of work. In the last 10 years, some 5,774 people have been killed ... offences contributes to the overall sense that death and injury at work is not ‘real crime.’” The main body set up ... ...
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BOOK REVIEWS
Book reviewed in this article: The Search for Labour Market Flexibility: The European Economies in Transition, edited by Robert Boyer. Government Managers and Industrial Relations: Public Enterpris...... ... In this collection, Boyer sets the work of seven economists associated with the European Federation for ... The authors present a useful discussion of death and injury at work, but the statistics they are forced to work with ... ...
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Equal Treatment, Fault-Based Liability, and Disability-Related-Discrimination
This case concerns the meaning disability-related-discrimination. It centred on the housing or ‘premises’ provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA 1995), but this House of Lords’ j...... ... In Clark v. Novacold, Mr Clark suffered a back injury at work which caused soft tissue injuries around the spine. He ... ...
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Fast‐food work: are McJobs satisfying?
Purpose: McJobs in the fast‐food sector are a major area of youth employment. This paper explores young people's perceptions of work in this industry. Design/methodology/approach: The paper discus...... ... A quarter of employees reported beinginjured at work, though only a small proportion of workers reported taking time-offdue to injury at work. Another study found that, while lost-time injuries were rare,minor incidents, such as burns and lacerations, were common. That study found ... ...
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