Shop steward handling of alcohol-related problems.
Using direct observations and extensive field interviewing over a 4-year period, this paper examines practices and beliefs of shop stewards in their effects on drinking patterns and consequences. It also includes response frequencies from a random sample survey questionnaire (n = 984) that are consistent with the qualitative analysis of steward behavior. Several themes are extracted which position steward handling of alcohol-related cases as intervening between disciplinary measures of supervisors and consequences of work-related drinking of union employees.
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Prevention Research Center, Berkeley, CA 94704.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000517:prevention & control*; D002170:Canada; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007750:Labor Unions; D008297:Male; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires