REVIEW: Shouldering Risks: The Culture of Control in the Nuclear Power Industry
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Shouldering Risks is a valuable addition to a line of studies in a range of disciplines which describe both normal operations as well as incidents and accidents in complex and potentially dangerous systems: Perrow’s Normal Accidents, Hutchin’s Cognition in the Wild, and Vaughan’s The Challenger Launch Decision : Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA. All of these books attempt to describe the actual working of complex systems, as opposed to relying on abstract descriptions of these systems as strictly hierarchical in their organization, and thus perfectly amenable to a logic of command and control for their operation.
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