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OverviewIn 1992, a preventable explosion at the Westray Mine in Plymouth, Nova Scotia, killed twenty-six miners. More than a decade later, the government introduced revisions to the Criminal Code of Canada aimed at strengthening corporate criminal liability. Bill C-45, dubbed the Westray bill, requires employers to ensure a safe workplace and attributes criminal liability to organizations for seriously injuring or killing workers and/or the public. In Still Dying for a Living, Steven Bittle turns a critical eye on Canada’s corporate criminal liability law. Interweaving Foucauldian and neo-Marxist literatures with in-depth interviews and parliamentary transcripts, Bittle reveals how various legal, economic, and cultural discourses surrounding the Westray bill downplayed the seriousness of workplace injury and death, effectively characterizing these crimes as regrettable but largely unavoidable accidents. As long as the primary causes of workplace injury and death are not properly scrutinized, Bittle argues, workers will continue to die in the pursuit of earning a living. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Steven BittlePublisher: University of British Columbia Press Imprint: University of British Columbia Press Weight: 0.400kg ISBN: 9780774823609ISBN 10: 0774823607 Pages: 268 Publication Date: 01 July 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsForeword: The Struggle for Corporate Accountability / Steve Tombs Preface 1 Introduction: What Is Crime? 2 Criminal Liability and the Corporate Form 3 Theorizing Corporate Harm and Wrongdoing 4 Constituting the Corporate Criminal through Law 5 Visions of Economic Grandeur: The Influence of Corporate Capitalism 6 Obscuring Corporate Crime and the Corporate Criminal 7 Disciplining Capital: More of the Same or Hope for the Future? Appendices Notes References IndexReviewsBittle examines the aftermath of the Westray disaster to deal with one of the more intriguing problems criminal lawyers, criminologists, and sociologists face. Still Dying for a Living not only tells an interesting story about a drama worthy of public attention, but it also explains how we make laws, how political forces coalesce and confront each other, and how the dominant relations of production contour law making. A well-written and fine contribution to a relatively unexplored field. - Harry Glasbeek is a professor emeritus at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, and the author of Wealth by Stealth: Corporate Crime, Corporate Law, and the Perversion of Democracy "This book is timely and needed. Steven Bittle shines light upon the political ""solution"" to worker demands for greater protection in the workplace and carefully documents the ways in which these demands are sidetracked, both by the dominant legal discourse and by political manoeuvring. - Bob Barnetson is a professor of labour relations at Athabasca University and the author of The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada Bittle examines the aftermath of the Westray disaster to deal with one of the more intriguing problems criminal lawyers, criminologists, and sociologists face. ""Still Dying for a Living"" not only tells an interesting story about a drama worthy of public attention, but it also explains how we make laws, how political forces coalesce and confront each other, and how the dominant relations of production contour law making. A well-written and fine contribution to a relatively unexplored field. - Harry Glasbeek is a professor emeritus at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, and the author of Wealth by Stealth: Corporate Crime, Corporate Law, and the Perversion of Democracy Steven Bittle's text is remarkable for being both a forensic dissection of a specific piece of legislation -- the Westray Bill -- within the context of a specific social issue, corporate manslaughter, while at the same time offering a broader analysis of the ways in which power is exercised in contemporary capitalist economies. ""Still Dying for a Living"" is a painstakingly researched and powerfully argued key to understanding our anti-regulatory times. Its analysis and conclusions span national borders and legal cultures. - Steve Tombs is a professor of sociology in the School of Humanities and Social Science at John Moores University, Liverpool, UK" This book is timely and needed. Steven Bittle shines light upon the political solution to worker demands for greater protection in the workplace and carefully documents the ways in which these demands are sidetracked, both by the dominant legal discourse and by political manoeuvring. - Bob Barnetson is a professor of labour relations at Athabasca University and the author of The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada Bittle examines the aftermath of the Westray disaster to deal with one of the more intriguing problems criminal lawyers, criminologists, and sociologists face. Still Dying for a Living not only tells an interesting story about a drama worthy of public attention, but it also explains how we make laws, how political forces coalesce and confront each other, and how the dominant relations of production contour law making. A well-written and fine contribution to a relatively unexplored field. - Harry Glasbeek is a professor emeritus at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, and the author of Wealth by Stealth: Corporate Crime, Corporate Law, and the Perversion of Democracy Steven Bittle's text is remarkable for being both a forensic dissection of a specific piece of legislation -- the Westray Bill -- within the context of a specific social issue, corporate manslaughter, while at the same time offering a broader analysis of the ways in which power is exercised in contemporary capitalist economies. Still Dying for a Living is a painstakingly researched and powerfully argued key to understanding our anti-regulatory times. Its analysis and conclusions span national borders and legal cultures. - Steve Tombs is a professor of sociology in the School of Humanities and Social Science at John Moores University, Liverpool, UK Bittle examines the aftermath of the Westray disaster to deal with one of the more intriguing problems criminal lawyers, criminologists, and sociologists face. Still Dying for a Living not only tells an interesting story about a drama worthy of public attention, but it also explains how we make laws, how political forces coalesce and confront each other, and how the dominant relations of production contour law making. A well-written and fine contribution to a relatively unexplored field.<br> - Harry Glasbeek is a professor emeritus at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, and the author of Wealth by Stealth: Corporate Crime, Corporate Law, and the Perversion of Democracy Author InformationSteven Bittle is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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