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2. Health risk perception and shale development in the UK and US.
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Harthorn, Barbara Herr, Halcomb, Laura, Partridge, Tristan, Thomas, Merryn, Enders, Catherine, and Pidgeon, Nick
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ATTITUDE (Psychology) , *BLUE collar workers , *DISCUSSION , *HEALTH attitudes , *HYDRAULIC fracturing , *INDUSTRIAL hygiene , *MINERAL industries , *RESEARCH funding , *RISK perception , *VIDEO recording , *ADULT education workshops , *DATA analysis , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics - Abstract
In this paper, we examine discourse in public deliberations in pre-development locales in the UK and US about advantages and disadvantages of future shale development ('fracking'). We aimed to understand how people anticipate potential health effects, broadly construed, of environmental toxicity and disturbance in the context of planned, but not yet implemented, energy development. In day-long deliberations with small, diverse groups in two cities in each country (London, Cardiff in the UK; Los Angeles, Santa Barbara in the US), participants discussed impacts on health and well-being using three main rubrics: 'It's money or health', 'Why take chances?' and 'Beyond the tipping point'. Throughout, participants framed health as an intrinsically moral issue, with collective responsibility as a dominant normative frame. We identify the concept of compound risk to underscore effects of multiple risks and hazards on people's sensibilities about anticipated future health and environmental harm. The findings demonstrate how and why diverse publics in pre-impact sites in both countries saw shale extraction as high stakes development that poses significant, often unacceptable, risks to human and environmental health and well-being. Risks extended beyond toxicity to broad threats to health, including, for some, the end of life as we know it on the planet. Overall, participants' discussions of health were more connected to social categories and their underlying moral principles than to technological details. This work contributes evidence of blurred boundaries between environment and health as well as the importance people place on social risks in the context of proposed energy system change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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3. Manpower and Process Control.
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BLUE collar workers , *INDUSTRIAL technicians , *TECHNOLOGICAL innovations , *PROCESS control systems - Abstract
The article presents information on the report "Outlook for Computer Process Control," prepared by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The report discusses the effects of computers on employment of office personnel. According to the report, no signs have been found of the long-feared technological unemployment caused by the use of computers. The BLS report covered applications in six process industries. They included: control of ammonia and ethylene processes in chemical plants; basic oxygen and hot strip mill operations in steel mills; catalytic cracking and reforming, and crude distillation units in petroleum refineries; electric generating equipment in power plants; and papermaking machines in paper plants. The study found that improved cost benefit ratios were the chief incentive for installation of process control at all survey plants. These outweighed heavy initial investments in time and money, ranging from $200,000 to $1,5 million, and from 2 to 21 years for individual projects.
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- 1971
4. Social, Occupational, and Spatial Exposures and Mental Health Disparities of Working-Class Latinas in the US.
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Hsieh, Yu-Chin, Apostolopoulos, Yorghos, Hatzudis, Kiki, and Sönmez, Sevil
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HISPANIC Americans , *ACCULTURATION , *AGRICULTURAL laborers , *ANXIETY , *BLUE collar workers , *CINAHL database , *MENTAL depression , *EMPLOYMENT discrimination , *EMIGRATION & immigration , *DOMESTIC violence , *HEALTH promotion , *HEALTH services accessibility , *IMMIGRANTS , *INDUSTRIAL hygiene , *PSYCHOLOGY information storage & retrieval systems , *MACHISMO , *MEDLINE , *MENTAL health , *MENTAL health services , *ONLINE information services , *POVERTY , *GENDER role , *SEXUAL harassment , *SUBSTANCE abuse , *SYSTEMATIC reviews , *OCCUPATIONAL hazards , *CULTURAL awareness , *ENVIRONMENTAL exposure , *LABELING theory , *SOCIOECONOMIC factors , *HEALTH equity , *VIOLENCE in the community , *SUICIDAL ideation - Abstract
Grounded in ecosocial theory, this paper discusses the mental health disparities of working-class Latinas from multiple perspectives. An overview of working-class Latinas' prevalent mental health disorders, barriers to care and suggestions for interventions and future studies are provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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5. Gentrification and the nature of work: exploring the links in Williamburg,Brooklyn.
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Curran, Winifred
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GENTRIFICATION , *URBAN renewal , *BLUE collar workers , *INNER cities - Abstract
This paper looks at the linkages between gentrification and the displacement of small-scale manufacturing and blue-collar work in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Although the link between global economic change and gentrification has been made for the upper classes who are the consumers of the gentrified landscape, very little work has been done on the bluecollar work and workers that remain in the central city despite the assumption by policymakers that deindustrialization is complete. I argue that manufacturing is still a viable sector of the urban economy that is increasingly at risk of displacement because of the conversion of industrial space to residential use and speculative real-estate pressure. In this way, gentrification is encouraging industrial displacement, which in turn is leading to the degradation of the blue-collar work that remains and to the increasing informalization of work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
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6. SUBJECTIVE POWERLESSNESS IN THE UNITED STATES: SOME LONGITUDINAL TRENDS.
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Guest, Avery M.
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SOCIAL sciences , *SOCIAL change , *BLUE collar workers , *EDUCATION , *ACADEMIC achievement - Abstract
The article discusses issues related to subjective powerlessness in the U.S. The paper focuses on changes since 1952 in citizen efficacy or feelings of control over government for various sub-groups in the U.S. population such as blacks, blue collar workers, Southerners, Jews, young and old people. As with most issues in the study of social change, there is widespread disagreement on trends in citizen efficacy for industrial societies such as the U.S. Most theory predicts trends in objective powerlessness, rather than subjective powerlessness, although it is possible that trends in objective powerlessness do not match trends in subjective powerlessness. Within the U.S. at each point of observation, powerlessness does not vary much by stratum, except when education and race are used as indicators. And within the white population, some of the differences are heavily explained by educational differentials. It therefore seems fair to conclude that white subordinate interest groups are not oriented toward government as a result of what would seem to be objective powerlessness but more on the basis of their educational achievement.
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- 1974
7. WHITE COLLARED.
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Hanus, Julie
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WHITE collar workers , *CORPORATE culture , *BLUE collar workers - Abstract
The author describes the culture of white-collar workspace in the U.S. since the growth of the service sector in the 1980s. He cites factors which prompted white-collar workers to be depicted as monkeylike morons shuffling papers and wasting time on the Internet. He also differentiates white-collar workers from blue-collar laborers based on a study conducted for the Center for American Progress. He also highlights the impact of the emergence of technology on U.S. office workers.
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- 2008
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