Still Dying for a Living Corporate Criminal Liability After the Westray Mine Disaster - Law and Society
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In 1992 a preventable explosion at the Westray Mine in Plymouth, Nova Scotia, killed twenty-six miners. More than a decade later, the government enacted Bill C-45, commonly known as the Westray bill, to hold organizations criminally liable for seriously injuring and killing workers and the public. In Still Dying for a Living, Steven Bittle turns a critical eye on the Westray bill, revealing how legal, economic, and cultural discourses surrounding the bill downplayed the seriousness of workplace injury and death, effectively characterizing these crimes as regrettable but largely unavoidable accidents and, in the process, obscuring their underlying causes.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780774823593 |
Publisher: | University of British Columbia Press |
Imprint: | UBCPress |
Pub date: | 16 Oct 2012 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 268 . |
Weight: | 520g |
Height: | 229mm |
Width: | 152mm |
Spine width: | 25mm |