Workplace Health: The Injuries of Neoliberalism
Special Issue of Health Sociology Review
Volume 14 Issue 1 August 2005
96 pages ISBN 978-0-9750436-4-6
Editor:
Toni Schofield
University of Sydney, NSW
This text is set in the context of the Coalition's Industrial Relations changes of 2006, known as Work Choices, which were highly controversial due to the implied threat of an aggressive new liberalism in Australian workplaces, in both public and private sectors. The working lives of most Australians and the conditions under which they worked were feared to be radically altered as a consequence.
One of the major but largely unmentioned casualties of IR reforms is their likely injury to workers' health and well-being.
Dr Toni Schofield, Editor
This Special Edition remains extremely relevant as mounting difficulties in employment injury prevention and management are indicated for workplaces with neoliberal health and safety policies. In fact, emerging research suggests the possibility of an impending occupational health crisis. Major 'reforms' in public management of occupational health and safety, employment injury and fatality and workers' compensation, over the past decade, have encouraged corporate disregard and disrespect for workplace, employee and community health. Workplace Health and Neo-liberalism draws on cases and subjects from Australia and the UK.
This collection provides an invaluable update and analysis of neoliberal workplace health legislation, OH&S, workers' compensation and IR case law, 'self regulation' and their HR workplace impacts.
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