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November 2009, Vol 99, No. S3 | American Journal of Public Health S538-S546
© 2009 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.149120

HEALTH POLICY AND ETHICS

Community Campaigns, Supply Chains, and Protecting the Health and Well-Being of Workers

Michael Quinlan, PhD and Rosemary K. Sokas, MD, MOH

Michael Quinlan is with the School of Organization and Management, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, and the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. Rosemary K. Sokas is with Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Chicago School of Public Health, University of Illinois, Chicago.

Correspondence: Correspondence should be sent to Rosemary K. Sokas, MD, MOH, Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, 2121 West Taylor Street M/C922, Chicago, IL 60612 (e-mail: sokas{at}uic.edu). Reprints can be ordered at http://www.ajph.org by clicking on the "Reprints/Eprints" link.

The growth of contingent work (also known as precarious employment), the informal sector, and business practices that diffuse employer responsibility for worker health and safety (such as outsourcing and the development of extended national and international contracting networks [supply chains]) pose a serious threat to occupational health and safety that disproportionately affects low-wage, ethnic minority, and immigrant workers.

Drawing on cases from the United States and Australia, we examine the role that community-based campaigns can play in meeting these challenges, including several successful campaigns that incorporate supply chain regulation.






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