Accounting for human rights : doxic health and safety practices - the accounting lessons from ICL

Cooper, C. and Coulson, A.B. and Taylor, P. (2011) Accounting for human rights : doxic health and safety practices - the accounting lessons from ICL. Critical Perspectives On Accounting, 22 (8). 738–758. ISSN 1045-2354 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2011.07.001)

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Abstract

This paper is concerned with a specific human right - the right to work in a safe environment. It sets out a case for developing a new form of account of health and safety in any organisational setting. It draws upon the theoretical insights of Pierre Bourdieu taking inspiration from his assertion that in order to understand the 'logic' of the worlds we live in we need to immerse ourselves into the particularity of an empirical reality. In this case the paper, analyses a preventable industrial disaster which occurred in Glasgow, Scotland which killed nine people and injured 33 others. From this special case of what is possible, the paper unearths the underlying structures of symbolic violence of the UK State, the Health and Safety Executive and capital with respect to health and safety at work. While dealing with one specific country (Scotland), the analysis can be used to question health and safety regimes and other forms of symbolic violence across the globe.

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Cooper, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8420-0621, Coulson, A.B. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9534-1371 and Taylor, P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8842-5350;
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