Overview
Wysong analyzes the nature and extent of the involvement of seven major health and safety professional organizations in the development of the most significant national reform effort in occupational health policy since the OSH Act of 1970: The High Risk Occupational Disease Notification and Prevention Act. The professions have long been a focus of study in sociology; however, this is the first book to examine how the interests and involvement of health professional's organizations on a national health policy issue are linked to external interests and dynamic contextual factors. By illuminating how professional societies' policy choices are embedded within and shaped by economic and political contexts, Wysong refines prevailing new class interpretations of professionals' interests where policy reforms are concerned. This book will be of particular concern to scholars and researchers involved with medical sociology, the sociology of work, complex organizations, social change, and occupational health policy.
Full Product Details
Author: Earl Wysong ,
Robert Perrucci
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
Volume: No. 100
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.20cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.446kg
ISBN: 9780313284755
ISBN 10: 031328475
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 30 July 1992
Recommended Age: From 7 to 17 years
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
The book engages in a systematic way the relatively neglected question of professional association activity in health and safety regulation, and indeed public policy generally it will be a useful resource for those engaged in research on governmental policy and the professions. -Contemporary Sociology ?The book engages in a systematic way the relatively neglected question of professional association activity in health and safety regulation, and indeed public policy generally it will be a useful resource for those engaged in research on governmental policy and the professions.?-Contemporary Sociology
?The book engages in a systematic way the relatively neglected question of professional association activity in health and safety regulation, and indeed public policy generally it will be a useful resource for those engaged in research on governmental policy and the professions.?-Contemporary Sociology
"?The book engages in a systematic way the relatively neglected question of professional association activity in health and safety regulation, and indeed public policy generally it will be a useful resource for those engaged in research on governmental policy and the professions.?-Contemporary Sociology ""The book engages in a systematic way the relatively neglected question of professional association activity in health and safety regulation, and indeed public policy generally it will be a useful resource for those engaged in research on governmental policy and the professions.""-Contemporary Sociology"
Author Information
EARL WYSONG is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Indiana University at Kokomo. His earlier research has appeared in Policy Studies Review and, with Robert Perrucci, in the edited collection Research and Politics in Society.
