Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies by Charles Perrow

Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies

Charles Perrow

464 pages first pub 1984 (editions)

nonfiction science technology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Normal Accidents analyzes the social side of technological risk. Charles Perrow argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety--building in more warnings and safeguards--fails because systems complexity makes failures inevita...

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