Occupational health and social justice in South Africa

南非的职业健康和社会正义

• 批准号: DP170103325
• 负责人: Prof Jock McCulloch
• 金额: $ 1.02万
• 依托单位: RMIT University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP170103325
• 关键词: Occupational; health; social; justice; South

This project aims to study South African asbestos and gold miners’ political and legal struggles for social justice. It will explain how their class actions for occupational injury against employers have been possible, and explore the wider significance of the legal cases. The research will examine how disabled miners re-captured science from corporate influence and used the law in pursuing their claims. The resultant book and articles are expected to illuminate aspects of a regional occupational health crisis and provide evidence to improve working conditions and action for legal redress.

该项目旨在研究南非石棉和金矿工人争取社会正义的政治和法律的斗争。它将解释他们对雇主的职业伤害集体诉讼是如何可能的，并探讨这些法律的案件的更广泛意义。这项研究将研究残疾矿工如何从企业的影响中重新获得科学，并利用法律来追求他们的主张。预计由此产生的书籍和文章将阐明区域职业健康危机的各个方面，并为改善工作条件和采取法律的补救行动提供证据。