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"[E]xamines the interconnections between gender, nationality, and occupational health. ...[The author] reports that 10 percent of adult Canadians, mostly women, have debilitating work-related musculo-skeletal disorders that seriously limit the scope of their daily activities. ...Canadians have a distinct disadvantage in fighting occupational injury and illness since record keeping was outsourced by the government during the 1990s to thirteen regional Associations of Workers Compensation Boards of Canada, a nonprofit association that charges fees to access the data that were formerly available to the public for free." --Editor's introduction