The social construction of occupational health and safety: Barriers to environmental-labor health coalitions

New Solutions

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 289-314

  Zoller, Heather M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSUMER; COOPERATION; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLITICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC RELATIONS; SAFETY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRADE UNION;

CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INTERINSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; LABOR UNIONS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; POLITICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 73949125752     PISSN: 10482911     EISSN: 15413772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/NS.19.3.b     Document Type: Article

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