Normal Accidents
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Normal Accidents by Charles Perrow
A noted Yale sociologist examines how and why catastrophic accidents occur in high-tech industriesnuclear power, petrochemical, and aerospaceand argues that they are becoming nearly inevitable in our advanced technological society..
Charles Perrow is Research Scholar and Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Yale University. Two of his six books are prizewinners: Normal Accidents (Princeton) and The AIDS Disaster. Complex Organizations (McGraw Hill) is in its third edition. He has written seventy articles and book chapters. Perrow has been a visiting professor at the London Graduate School of Business Studies, a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and the Institute for Advanced Study.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780465051427 |
| ISBN 10 | 0465051421 |
| Title | Normal Accidents |
| Author | Charles Perrow |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Basic Books |
| Year published | 1985-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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