The Sociology of Industrial Injury

Part 1 Critical studies in accident theory: "accidents", absenteeism and the legacy of early post-war industrial sociology safety or profit? Robens and the conventional wisdom, (with Peter Armstrong) injuries/accidents and the social sciences today - psychology and economics injuries/accidents and the social sciences today -sociology and political economy. Part 2 Studies in structures and vulnerability: the 1974 Health and safety at work Act and its effects on British manufacturing, 1960-1985 institutional correlates of injury at work - health and safety arrangements, trade unionism and size of employment unit labour-driven productivity and injuries to miners in Turkey, 1942-1990 (with Erol Kahveci) postscript.