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Risk negotiations in the mines of Potosí: implications for rethinking current Health and Safety approaches
It is generally agreed that knowledge of the causes and consequences of a particular risk influences how people prepare for and respond to it. Ethnographic research in Potosí (Bolivia) shows however a more complex scenario, in which miners simultaneously face a number of physical and socio-economic risks and uncertainties that must be carefully weighed against each other. Miners often have little or no control over most of these risks that affect them, and health and safety risks are only a small group of concerns. Prone to take health risks at work as a strategy to manage other risks that simultaneously affect them, the Potosí’s miners are well aware of the potential losses of taking these risks, but also of the potential gains of their decisions.
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Palgrave MacmillanPublisher URL
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63-90Pages
336.0Book title
Extraordinary risks, ordinary lives: logics of precariousness in everyday contextsPlace of publication
LondonISBN
9783030839611Series
Critical studies in risk and uncertaintyDepartment affiliated with
- Global Health and Infection Publications
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- Wellcome Trust Brighton and Sussex Centre for Global Health Research Publications
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Beata Switek, Allen Abramson, Hannah SweeLegacy Posted Date
2017-05-16Usage metrics
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