LABRST 3D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: New Economy, Occupational Disease, Occupational Stress
11 Dec 2017
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Here are the problems and these are regulations put in place to fix them. Decline in manufacturing: not in manufacturing per say but in employment of manufacturing. Erosion of standard employment relationship / rise of precarious forms of employment. Neo-liberalism: umbrella term, politics of the workforce. 30 years ago occ disease would be #1 time change w changes in economy. All in workplace but not always recognized or respected no new ones. Elliot lake uranism, cancer, lies: stephen lewis the closet thing to evil in political world ndp, gov and company kept info from workers. Johns manville asbestos disease: royal commission a world class occupational health disaster. Bob sass ofl-ohs conference 1980: only has change if workers demand it, just bc we know issues doesn"t mean things will get done b/c gov has more power. Tuesday, november 14, 2017: still not healthy, still not safe, h&s committees were just advisory in law.
