Toxic Capital Everywhere: Mapping the Coordinates of Regulatory Tolerance

In Saturday, Aug 6, 2011, James Kay was killed at a plant owned by Sonae in Kirkby, Liverpool, while working on a cherry picker. This article will show that James Kay's killing could not have been surprising to anyone who had followed the plant's 10-year history. Why James Kay was there on...

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Published inSocial justice (San Francisco, Calif.) Vol. 41; no. 1/2; pp. 80 - 100
Main Authors Tombs, Steve, Whyte, David
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published San Francisco Social Justice 01.01.2014
Subjects
Analysis
Bhopal
Capitalism
Chemicals
Disasters
Enforcement
England
Health
Investment
Political economy
Regulation
Safety
Shopping centers
Toxicity
United Kingdom
United Kingdom > UK
England
Portugal
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Summary:In Saturday, Aug 6, 2011, James Kay was killed at a plant owned by Sonae in Kirkby, Liverpool, while working on a cherry picker. This article will show that James Kay's killing could not have been surprising to anyone who had followed the plant's 10-year history. Why James Kay was there on that Saturday morning as a subcontracted maintenance worker, why he died, and why his death was consigned as an accidental byproduct of working is at the heart of a political economy of toxic capital, and is the subject matter in this article. In this very mundane incident -- reported immediately and subsequently as an accident -- the authors find a key to understanding the inherently destructive tendencies of capitalist production.
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ISSN:1043-1578
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