Death and Work in Britain
Death and Work in Britain
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英国的死亡和工作
DOI：
10.1111/1467-954x.00176
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发表时间：
1999
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S. Tombs
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S. Tombs
官方数字表明，1996/97年英国有302起致命的职业伤害。本文是对达到这一“标题数字”的手段的持续批判。根据其他或多或少可恢复的官方收集的致命伤害数据，它表明，在这一时期，致命的职业伤害至少增加了五倍。然后，它考虑了合法构成（和最近修订的）数据收集类别中的各种异常和不一致之处，其效果是排除不确定数量的职业死亡，尤其是对公众成员，个体户和其他工人群体。最后，本文考虑了一些漏报的社会过程，即官方数据中没有记录职业死亡人数。结论是：致命伤害数据严重不完整，需要重建；20世纪90年代末，英国因工作而死亡的实际人数在很大程度上代表了一个被掩盖的社会问题；尽管对官方死亡数据的可靠性和有效性仍存在疑问，但将这些数据纳入社会学分析是很重要的，尽管持怀疑态度。
Official figures indicate that there were 302 fatal occupational injuries in Britain in 1996/97. This paper is a sustained critique of the means by which this ‘headline figure’ is reached. Drawing upon other, more or less recoverable, officially collected data on fatal injuries it demonstrates that there are at least five times more fatal occupational injuries during this time period. It then considers various anomalies and inconsistencies within the legally constituted (and recently revised) categories of data collection, the effect of which is to exclude indeterminate numbers of occupational fatalities, not least to members of the public, to the self-employed, and to other groups of workers. Finally, the paper considers some social processes of under-reporting, whereby occupational fatalities are not recorded in official data. The paper concludes that: fatal injury data is grossly incomplete, and requires work of reconstruction; the actual number of fatalities incurred through work in Britain at the end of the 1990s represents a largely obscured social problem; while there remain questions about both the reliability and validity of official fatality data, it is important that this data is incorporated within sociological analysis, albeit sceptically.