The AIDS Disaster (Häftad)
avCharles Perrow, Mauro F. Guill'en, Mauro F. Guillen
ISBN: 9780300048803 - UTGIVEN: 199101Outlines how government and private organizations have inadequately addressed the AIDS issue because of the attitude of society toward the population groups most affected by the disease[...]
Normal Accidents (Häftad)
avCharles Perrow
ISBN: 9780691004129 - UTGIVEN: 199909"Normal Accidents" analyzes the social side of technological risk. Charles Perrow argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety - building in more warnings and safeguards - fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable. He asserts that typical precautions, by addi[...]
Organizing America (Häftad)
avCharles Perrow
ISBN: 9780691123158 - UTGIVEN: 200503American society today is shaped not nearly as much by vast open spaces as it is by vast, bureaucratic organizations. Over half the working population toils away at enterprises with 500 or more employees - up from zero percent in 1800. Is this institutional immensity the logical outcome of technolog[...]
The Next Catastrophe (Inbunden)
avCharles Perrow
ISBN: 9780691129976 - UTGIVEN: 200703Crucial insights into how to make society safer are offered in this penetrating reassessment of the very real dangers society faces today and what must be done to confront them.[...]
The Next Catastrophe (Häftad)
avCharles Perrow
ISBN: 9780691150161 - UTGIVEN: 201102Charles Perrow is famous worldwide for his ideas about normal accidents, the notion that multiple and unexpected failures - catastrophes waiting to happen - are built into our society's complex systems. In "The Next Catastrophe", he offers crucial insights into how to make us safer, proposing a bold[...]
