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Resource type
Book
Author/contributor
Title
The Westray Chronicles: A Case Study in Corporate Crime
Abstract
Was the Westray mining disaster a tragic accident or a corporate crime gone unpunished? In this book authors from backgrounds as diverse as engineering to public relations are brought together to create a holistic picture of what happened at Westray. From an analysis of the geology of the underlying coal seam to an assessment of the difficulties of pinning legal responsibility on the company, the government or any of the managers, this book constitutes one of the few case studies of corporate crime in Canada. The contributors offer the reader challenging new ways to think about workplace disasters and occupational injuries. Each contributor brings their special expertise to bear in a way that makes complicated issues transparent to the most general reader. At the same time, footnotes and references guide the reader who desires more extensive information. -- Publisher's description
Place
Halifax, N.S.
Publisher
Fernwood
Date
1999
# of Pages
287 pages: illustrations
Language
English
ISBN
978-1-895686-32-6
Short Title
The Westray Chronicles
URL
https://archive.org/details/westraychronicle0000unse/mode/2up
Library Catalog
Open WorldCat
Extra
OCLC: 48811303
Notes

Contents: Stewart Donovan's 71-line poem "Liscombe Sanctuary." 1. Chris McCormick's "Prelude to Disaster" --2. Shaun and Shirley Comish's "The Road to Recovery is Long." Working Conditions : Prefiguring Disaster. 3. Patrick Whiteway's "Engineering the Westray Mine Disaster" -- 4. Harry Glasbeek and Eric Tucker's "Death by Consensus at Westray?” -- 5. Gerald J.S. Wilde's "The Awareness and Acceptance of Risk at Westray" -- 6. Timothy Hynes and Pushkala Prasad's "The Normal Violation of Safety Rules." The Aftermath: Dealing with Disaster. 7. Trudie Richards' "Public Relations and the Westray Mine Explosion" -- 8. Dean Jobb's "Legal Disaster: Westray and the Justice System" -- 9. John McMullan and Sherman Hinze's "Westray: The Press, Ideology, and Corporate Crime" -- 10. Susan Dodd's "Unsettled Accounts after Westray."

Citation
McCormick, C. (Ed.). (1999). The Westray Chronicles: A Case Study in Corporate Crime. Fernwood. https://archive.org/details/westraychronicle0000unse/mode/2up
Link to this record
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