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Shop steward handling of alcohol‐related problems
Author(s) -
DELANEY WILLIAM P.,
AMES GENEVIEVE
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0965-2140
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1993.tb02143.x
Subject(s) - interview , sample (material) , discipline , psychology , human factors and ergonomics , occupational safety and health , poison control , suicide prevention , applied psychology , injury prevention , social psychology , environmental health , medicine , sociology , political science , social science , law , chemistry , chromatography , pathology
Using direct observations and extensive field interviewing over a 4‐year period, this paper examines practices and beliefs of shop stewards in their effects on drinking patterns and consequences. It also includes response frequencies from a random sample survey questionnaire (n = 984) that are consistent with the qualitative analysis of steward behavior. Several themes are extracted which position steward handling of alcohol‐related cases as intervening between disciplinary measures of supervisors and consequences of work‐related drinking of union employees.