PAIN AND PREJUDICE: WHAT SCIENCE CAN LEARN ABOUT WORK FROM THE PEOPLE WHO DO IT

Book ID/图书代码： 01808015B86577

English Summary/英文概要： In 1978, when workers at a nearby phosphate refinery learned that the ore they processed was contaminated with radioactive dust, Karen Messing, then a new professor of molecular genetics, was called in to help. Unsure of what to do with her discovery that exposure to the radiation was harming the workers and their families, Messing contacted senior colleagues but they wouldn’t help. Neither the refinery company nor the scientific community was interested in the scary results of her chromosome studies.

Over the next decades Messing encountered many more cases of workers around the world-factory workers, cleaners, checkout clerks, bank tellers, food servers, nurses, teachers-suffering and in pain without any help from the very scientists and occupational health experts whose work was supposed to make their lives easier. Arguing that rules for scientific practice can make it hard to see what really makes workers sick, in Pain and Prejudice Messing tells the story of how she went from looking at test tubes to listening to workers.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1978年，附近炼油厂的工人得知他们经手的磷酸盐被放射性尘埃污染过。Karen Messing，当时还是一个分子遗传学专业的年轻教授，被请来帮忙处理。她发现因为暴露在辐射中，这些工人以及他们的家属都已受到伤害。她不确定该怎么做才好，于是联系了自己那些更有经验的同事们，但他们也不愿意帮忙。炼油厂和科学界对于她所进行的染色体研究得到的可怕结果都不怎么感兴趣。

在接下来的十年里，Messing遇到了世界各地更多的工厂工人、清洁工、收银员、银行柜员、餐厅服务员、护士以及教师等等，在遇到痛苦的时候没有得到任何科学家或是职业卫生专家的帮助，虽然他们的工作应该是使受苦的人能生活得更轻松一些。Messing认为科学的方法反而使科学家们无法了解究竟是什么让人生病，在本书中，她将讲述自己怎样从看试管转变为倾听工人说话。(LYR)

Awards/获奖情况：Karen Messing展现了对于那些“隐形人”的深刻的同情。所谓“隐形人”，他们中大部分人的工作都是那些我们平时不了解或是被忽视的。本书很重要，它告诉我们其实对于压力以及污染等等问题，我们了解到的内容和信息还少得可怜。这些问题是可以解决的，但首先我们得要重视它们，并认真地去倾听那些工人想要说的话。（David Suzuki，著有《The Sacred Balance》）

Messing长期以来一直是“倾听”的实践者之一。在她看来，倾听能够帮助她了解工人们的健康究竟出了什么问题。本书介绍了这种方法是如何得来的，它为什么是如此有效，以及一些其他的重要发现。本书提供一个走近工人们的健康和安全的独特视角。（Wayne Lewchuk，麦克马斯特大学劳工研究和经济学院教授）

"Karen Messing demonstrates a profound empathy for “invisible” people, the legion of workers performing jobs of which most of us are unaware or ignore. Pain and Prejudice is an important book that informs us how uninformed or thoughtless we are to problems of stress and pollution which can be relieved by taking them seriously and listening to the workers themselves."(David Suzuki, author of The Sacred Balance)

"How can scientists be objective and empathetic at the same time? Karen Messing’s decades of research into workers’ health, especially the health of women workers and those of the lower rungs of the working class, are examined and analyzed in a very interesting and readable style. Dr. Messing shows how collaboration with community partners such as unions can improve research but how this type of research is increasingly threatened. She shows how research can and should make change in the workplace to improve workers’ health."(Cathy Walker, past director, National Health and Safety, Canadian Auto Workers)

"Karen Messing is a riveting storyteller who illuminates areas usually enveloped in the fog of expertise and pedantry. She belongs to a lamentably rare breed; she is a militant intellectual. An accomplished scientist, she tells, in a personal, evocative style, of the way she came to better understand the relationships between employers, science, and labour. Her encounters with, and analyses of, science and scientists hired by capital and government to regulate working conditions lead her to question both the impartiality of science and the accompanying lack of empathy for workers, particularly women. This is a valuable book for anyone interested in social theory, sociology, and, most importantly, the health and safety of workers."(Harry Glasbeek, author of Wealth by Stealth)

"Messing has long been one of the leading practitioners of “listening to workers’ stories” as a way of understanding their health. Pain and Prejudice describes how this approach evolved, why it is so effective, and some of the leading findings. It provides a unique window into the world of worker health and safety."(Wayne Lewchuk, professor, School of Labour Studies and Department of Economics, McMaster University)

About the Author/作者介绍： 屡获殊荣的Karen Messing是国际公认的职业健康专家。她已发表了超过130篇高水平论文以及著作《One-eyed Science: Occupational Health and Working Women》。她还是已被翻译成六种语言的期刊《Integrating Gender in Ergonomic Analysis》的编审之一。

Karen Messing is an award-winning and internationally recognized expert on occupational health. She is the author of more than 130 peer-reviewed scientific articles and the book One-eyed Science: Occupational Health and Working Women. She is also the editor of Integrating Gender in Ergonomic Analysis, which has been translated into six languages.

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