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In the previous chapter, it was theorized that industrial accidents are produced at three levels of social reality—rewards, command, and organization—and at the nonsocial individual member level. At each social level employers and workers struggle for control and enter into agreement over the management of relationships to work, and as a consequence, goods and services as well as accidents are produced.
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Dwyer, T. (1991). Methods and Research Design. In: Life and Death at Work. Plenum Studies in Work and Industry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0606-9_5
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