Negotiating both sides of the plant gate: gender, hazardous facility workers and community responses to technological hazards

Article Abstract:

The impact of economic ties to hazardous facilities and the gender of community members need to be considered when researching the social psychology of technological hazards. People who work in hazardous facilities and their immediate families are more likely to discount the hazards because they need the jobs. Women are more likely to respond to the hazards because of their focus on protecting their families. The visible effects of plant pollution can be seen as signs of prosperity in communities that are economically dependent on the plant. Therefore, more research is necessary into the different responses of workers and other community members.

Psychological aspects, Environmental aspects, Pollution, Environmental health, Social psychology, Hazardous occupations

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Toward equality and justice in labor markets

Article Abstract:

American labor laws are inconsistent with US principles of equality and justice and are a major drawback in the present set-up of market-based private economies. The Norris-La Guardia Act and the National Labor Relations Act in the 1930s created legislation that denied employers the right to peacefully resist trade unions on the basis of their property and contract rights, guaranteed under common law. It also made it obligatory for the individuals to join employee unions.

Economic aspects, Laws, regulations and rules, Labor law, Labor unions

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