Occupational and Work-Related Diseases in Slovenia Cover Image

Poklicne bolezni in z delom povezane bolezni v Sloveniji
Occupational and Work-Related Diseases in Slovenia

Author(s): Nina Vodopivec
Subject(s): Social history, Labor relations, Health and medicine and law, Welfare services, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today), Politics of History/Memory
Published by: Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino
Keywords: occupational diseases; occupational health and safety; socialism; post-socialist transformation;

Summary/Abstract: The author links the current systemic lack of regulation of occupational diseases in Slovenia to the socio-political changes and transformations of political relations that have taken place in the last thirty years – to the paradigm of self-responsibility in the feld of health and work and to the social understanding occupational diseases and work-related illnesses. She also focuses on the history of the occupational health and safety profession. She does not look at occupational health and safety from the biomedical viewpoint but rather fom the political-economic and socio-cultural perspective. She explains occupational health as a political and social phenomenon related to people‘s structural vulnerability. In her exploration of the experiences of work-related illness and injury, the author draws on ethnographic research with textile workers.

  • Issue Year: 61/2021
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 140-168
  • Page Count: 29
  • Language: Slovenian