Every year in the UK, hundreds of workers are killed just doing their jobs,
thousands more die of illnesses caused by their work and tens of thousands
suffer major injuries such as amputations, loss of sight, serious burns, and so
on. Worldwide, two million people are killed by work each year. Yet with the
exception of high profile cases such as the gas leak at Bhopal, India, which
killed tens of thousands, this crime wave fails to attract the interest of the
politicians, the media or - least forgiveably of all - the knowledge industry of
criminology. This book is concerned with crimes against worker and