| Still Dying for a Living: Corporate Criminal Liability After the Westray Mine Disaster Contributor(s): Bittle, Steven (Author) |
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ISBN: 0774823593 ISBN-13: 9780774823593 Publisher: University of British Columbia Press OUR PRICE: $98.01 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations - Law | Corporate - Law | Liability |
| Dewey: 345 |
| Series: Law & Society |
| Physical Information: 268 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 1992 a preventable explosion at the Westray Mine in Plymouth, Nova Scotia, killed twenty-six miners. More than a decade later, the government enacted Bill C-45, commonly known as the Westray bill, to hold organizations criminally liable for seriously injuring and killing workers and the public. In Still Dying for a Living, Steven Bittle turns a critical eye on the Westray bill, revealing how legal, economic, and cultural discourses surrounding the bill downplayed the seriousness of workplace injury and death, effectively characterizing these crimes as regrettable but largely unavoidable accidents and, in the process, obscuring their underlying causes. |