Revolution blues: the reconstruction of Health and Safety as a ‘common-sense’ form of regulation

Almond, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7441-069X (2015) Revolution blues: the reconstruction of Health and Safety as a ‘common-sense’ form of regulation. Journal of Law and Society, 42 (2). pp. 202-229. ISSN 0263-323X doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6478.2015.00705.x

Abstract/Summary

This paper provides a review of the last five years of policymaking in the area of health and safety law; this includes multiple reviews, legislative reform, and the reframing of rhetoric around the issue. It characterises this as a process of social construction of a new ‘universe of meaning’ around health and safety regulation, which provides a basis for a particular, narrow, neoliberal conception of regulation and responsibility to permeate the mainstream. Deliberative and public-facing policymaking processes have been utilised as a key element of this process.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/39604
Identification Number/DOI	10.1111/j.1467-6478.2015.00705.x
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Law
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
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