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Workers At Risk : Voices from the Workplace - Dorothy Nelkin

Workers At Risk

Voices from the Workplace

By: Dorothy Nelkin, Michael S. Brown

Hardcover | 1 May 1984 | Edition Number 1

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"Workers at Risk" is a powerful and moving documentary of workers routinely exposed to toxic chemicals. Products and services we all depend on--glass bottles, computers, processed foods and fresh flowers, dry cleaning, medicines, even sculpture and silkscreened toys--are produced by workers in constant contact with more than 63,000 commercial chemicals. For many of them, the risk of death is a way of life.
More than seventy of them speak here of their jobs, their health, and the difficult choices they face in coming to grips with the responsibilities, risks, fears, and satisfactions of their work. Some struggle for information and acknowledgment of their health risks; others struggle to put out of their minds the dangers they know too well. Through extensive interviews, the authors have captured in these voices that double bind of the chemical worker: "If I had known that it would be that lethal, that it could give me or one of my children cancer, I would have refused to work. But it's a matter of survival and we just don't consider all these things. Meanwhile, we've got to make money to survive."
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How toxic chemical workers, in various settings, feel about being placed at risk in their jobs: a study-report that complements recent attention to regulation and other spotlight issues of occupational health. Sociologist/activist Nelkin (The Atom Besieged, The Creation Controversy) and researcher Brown are both associated with Cornell's Program on Science, Technology, and Society. In any discussion of risk, they would like the perceptions and anxieties of workers to be considered along with measurable exposure to hazards and states of physical health. Their interviewees - who range from sculptors to firefighters to laboratory technicians - talk about their fears of illness, their ways of coping (use of protective equipment vs. ignoring the hazards), their recourse in case of injury or illness (OSHA got poor grades). As regards the risk-control issues, opinions ran the gamut from the positive-minded, who wanted to work with management to make the workplace safer, to skeptics strictly looking out for themselves. ("I wouldn't trust that son-of-a-bitch company doctor as far as I could throw a car.") Nelkin and Brown draw few conclusions - leaving the pervasive fear of future illness to speak for itself. An effective if unremarkable presentation of worker concerns. (Kirkus Reviews)

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