Organizing Aids: Workplace and Organizational Responses to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic (Social Aspects of AIDS)

✍ Scribed by Derek Adam-Smith, David Goss

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 170
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

It is estimated that 90% of those who are HIV positive are in employment. However, the significant body of literature into HIV/AIDS to date has primarily focused on the medical aspects of the disease and its implications for health/social policy. There has been little analysis of the employment implications of HIV/AIDS, and what does exist is essentially descriptive and usually limited to legal features of the employment relationship. This text provides a review of the theoretical and practical issues which bear upon organisational responses to HIV/AIDS. The authors set these responses in a historical and international context, before analysing recent research findings. In the first three chapters, issues are explored through an analysis which highlights international convergences and divergences. The remaining chapters draw on the authors' research to explore the "internal" dynamics of HIV/AIDS in the workplace.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover
Half-Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 AIDS, Employment and the Workplace
Introduction
Actual and Perceived Risk of Transmission
The Workplace as an Arena of Discrimination and Prejudice
The Workplace as an Arena for Support and Assistance
Work as Financial Necessity
The Epidemic and Those Affected
Historical Development of the Epidemic and Organizational Responses
Constraint and Contingency
Industrial Sector
Organization Size
Workforce Composition and Attitudes
Organizational Culture
Employment Law
Functional Responsibility
Occupational health
Personnel and human resource management
Trade Union Presence
Influences Underlying Contingency
Chapter 2 Defensive Responses to HIV/AIDS
Introduction
AIDS, Threat and Organization
Unilateral Expulsion
Workplace Testing for HIV
Disclosure and the Need to Know
Written HIV/AIDS Policy
Conclusions
Chapter 3 Constructive Responses to HIV/AIDS
Introduction
Written HIV/AIDS Policy
Normalization, Medicalization and the Short Agenda
Challenge, Diversity and the Long Agenda
Training and Education
Conclusions
Chapter 4 HIV/AIDS and Workplace Dilemmas
Introduction
Emotion, Organization and HIV/AIDS
HIV/AIDS and Workplace Dilemmas
Conclusion
Chapter 5 Sex, Work and HIV/AIDS
Introduction
Sex Work and the Sex Industry
Women, HIV and Employment
HIV/AIDS, Homosexuality and Workplace Attitudes
Compassionate Secularism
Indiscriminate Action
Compassionate Moralism
Punitive Moralism
Conclusions
Chapter 6 HIV/AIDS and British Employment Law
Introduction
The Lack of Case Law
Testing as Part of the Recruitment Procedure
Testing Existing Employees
HIV/AIDS and Dismissal
The Limitations of Existing Law
Conclusion
Chapter 7 Legislative Responses to HIV/AIDS in Europe and the USA
Introduction
European Legislation
European Union Measures
USA Employment Legislation
Conclusions
Chapter 8 Conclusions
References
Index