Bloody Oil: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Safety Crimes in the Alberta Oil and Gas Industry
Journal: uO Research (University of Ottawa)
Year: 2014

This thesis critically examines dominant conceptualizations of safety crimes – offences by corporations that seriously injure and kill workers – within the Alberta oil and gas industry. Using critical discourse analysis, and relying on and Foucaultian and Marxist literatures, the thesis critically examines the extent to which government fatality reports, workplace safety education campaigns and court decisions characterize safety crimes primarily as ‘accidents’ caused by ‘careless’ workers. Two