Workplace health and safety protection: a long and winding road
Quinlan, Michael ; Walters, David
2023
27
54-57
occupational safety and health ; social mobilization ; trade union role ; labour legislation ; history ; trade union document
Occupational safety and health
English
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"The protection of workers from risks to their health and safety at the workplace is nowadays often taken for granted in the advanced economies of Europe, North America and Australasia. It is easily forgotten that the development of a legislative framework on occupational health and safety in fact involved a prolonged struggle, requiring substantial worker and community mobilisations against the powerful vested interests of capital to secure even the most minimal protections."
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