DR. ELLEN ROSSKAM
Consultant, Center for Social Epidemiology
34D Route du Prieur, Landecy,
1257 La Croix-de-Rozon, Switzerland
Tel. Office (+41) 22-347-6846
Email: eerosskam@yahoo.com

PUBLICATIONS      

Books, Manuals, Reports

E. Rosskam, Liberalizing Turkish education: Islam, secularism and the future of democracy (working title), Woodrow Wilson Center Press, Washington, D.C., forthcoming 2009.

E. Rosskam, B. Greiner, J. Siegrist, S.L. Smith, V. McCarthy, N. Wege, L. Zsoldos, M. Mateski, I. Marowsky, G. Mocho Rodriguez, L. Williamson, Stressed and fatigued on the ground and in the sky:

A global study of 116 countries in Africa, Asia/Pacific, Middle East, North America, Latin/South America, and Europe in the post 9/11 era – Changes from 2000-2007 in civil aviation workers’ conditions of work. International Transport Workers Federation, London, forthcoming 2009.

D. Hill and E. Rosskam (eds.), The Developing world and state education: Neoliberal depredation and egalitarian alternatives, Routledge, New York, 2009.

P. Schnall, M. Dobson, E. Rosskam, (eds.), Unhealthy Work: Causes, consequences, and cures, Baywood, New York, 2009.

E. Rosskam, Excess Baggage: Leveling the load and changing the workplace, Baywood, New York, 2007.

E. Rosskam and A. Leather (eds.), Failing health systems in Eastern Europe (An abridged version of Corrosive reform: Failing health systems in Eastern Europe), Public Services International, Ferney-Voltaire, 2006.

E. Rosskam (ed.), Winners or losers? Liberalizing public services, International Labor Office, Geneva, 2006.

P. Annycke, F. Bonnet, A. Khan, J. Figueiredo, E. Rosskam, G. Standing, L. Zsoldos, Economic security for a better world, International Labor Office, Geneva, 2004. Also in French.

E. Rosskam, A Work security index: Measuring protection to workers’ health, White Paper on Work Organization and Health for California Legislature, Los Angeles, USA, April 2004.

E. Rosskam, Work Security: Re-thinking workers’ health, White Paper on Work Organization and Health for California Legislature, Los Angeles, USA, April 2004.

C. Afford (E. Rosskam and A. Leather, eds.), Corrosive Reform: Failing health systems in Eastern Europe, International Labor Office, Geneva, 2003. Also in Russian.

E. Rosskam, A. Drewczynski, R. Bertolini, Service on the ground: Occupational health of airport check-in workers, International Transport Workers’ Federation, London, 2003.

E. Rosskam and G. Loos (eds.), Balancing Globalization with Social Responsibility: Perspectives on Work Security, Heath, and Environment in the Global Economy, special issue of New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy, Vol. 13, No.1, 2003.

E. Rosskam, Working at the check-in: Consequences for worker health and management practices, University of Lausanne Press, Lausanne, 2003.

E. Rosskam, Drewczynski, A., Bertolini, R., The Insecurities of service: Airport check-in workers, Socio-Economic Security Papers No. 40, Socio-Economic Security Programme, International Labor Office, Geneva, 2003.

M. Keith, J.Brophy, P. Kirby, E. Rosskam, Barefoot Research: A Workers’ manual for organising on work security, International Labor Office, Geneva, 2002. Also in French, Hungarian, Turkish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Visnayan/Cebuano, Italian, and Spanish.

E. Rosskam, Catalogue of ILO publications on occupational safety and health, International Labor Office, Geneva, 2000.

E. Rosskam (ed.), Ergonomic checkpoints: Practical and easy-to-implement solutions for improving safety, health and working conditions, by Kogi, K., Kuorinka, I., et al., International Labor Office, Geneva, 1996. Also in Arabic, Bahasa Malaysia, Mandarin Chinese, Estonian, Farsi, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, Russian, Bahasa Indonesia.

E. Rosskam, Your health and safety at work: A collection of modules, International Labor Office, Geneva, 1996, CD ROM version: 1999. Individual booklets include: AIDS & the Workplace; Male/Female Reproductive Health Hazards in the Workplace; Health and Safety for Women/ Children; Using Health & Safety Committees at Work; Ergonomics; Chemicals in the Workplace; Controlling Hazards; Noise at Work; Legislation/Enforcement; Your Body at Work; Introduction to Occupational Health & Safety; Instructor’s Guide to the Modules. Also in French and Spanish, Arabic, Farsi, Hindi.

M. Brown, R.Baker, E. Rosskam, (eds), The VDT trainer's kit: A Complete course on computer terminal health and safety, Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program, University of California, Los Angeles, and the Labor Occupational Health Program, University of California, Berkeley, 1991.

Book Reviews

E. Rosskam, One-eyed science: Occupational health and women workers, by Messing, K., International Labor Review, Vol. 7, No. 4, Geneva, pp. 517-521, 1999. Also in Spanish and French.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

I. Zulkarnay and E. Rosskam, Collective social rights and their social functions in Russia, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Social Rights, Antalya, Turkey, 2009.

E. Rosskam, Liberalizing education in Turkey: Social disparities and the future of democracy, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Social Rights, Antalya, Turkey, 2009.

E. Rosskam, A 21st century approach to assessing the protection of workers’ health, WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation, forthcoming 2009.

E. Rosskam, Contextualizing education liberalization through neoliberal reforms, state governance, and stability of nation-states, The Developing world and state education: Neoliberal depredation and egalitarian alternatives, Routledge, New York, pp. 1-12, 2009.

E. Rosskam, Measuring the protection of workers’ health: A national work security index, Unhealthy Work: Causes, consequences, and cures, Baywood, New York, pp. 313-329, 2009.

M. Casey and E. Rosskam, Organizing and collaborating to reduce hotel workers’ injuries, Unhealthy Work: Causes, consequences, and cures, Baywood, New York, pp. 249-266, 2009.

E. Rosskam, Using participatory action research methodology to improve worker health, Unhealthy Work: Causes, consequences, and cures, Baywood, New York, pp. 211-228, 2009.

R.Antonio, J. Fisher, and E. Rosskam, The MUNI health and safety project: A 26 year union-management research collaboration, Unhealthy Work: Causes, consequences, and cures, Baywood, New York, pp.229- 248, 2009.

P. Schnall, M. Dobson, E. Rosskam, and P. Landsbergis, Curing unhealthy work, Unhealthy Work: Causes, consequences, and cures, Baywood, New York, pp. 331-350, 2009.

P. Schnall, D. Gordon, E. Rosskam, and M. Dobson, Beyond the individual: Connecting work environment and health, Unhealthy Work: Causes, consequences, and cures, Baywood, New York, pp. 1-16, 2009.

E. Rosskam, Participatory action research, Encyclopedia of Epidemiology, Sage Publications, New York, 2008.

E. Rosskam, Who needs gender when you can have sex? New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp.153-162, 2007.

E. Rosskam, Stiff reminders, and regenerating for the future, New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 1-6, 2007.

E. Rosskam, Work insecurity, work-related ill health – A global sickness, New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 217-219, 2006.

E. Rosskam, Occupational health and ergonomics: International perspectives, Proceedings of the 13th Ergonomics Congress, Bursa, Turkey, 2005.

E. Rosskam, Working at the check-in: Consequences for health, New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 221-244, 2005.

E. Rosskam Erin Brokovitch Revisited: Technical assistance for social policy-making and agency, New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 107-112, 2005.

E. Rosskam, Musculoskeletal disorders among airport check-in workers: Discovering the unknown, International Commission of Occupational Health, Fifth International Scientific Conference on Prevention of Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders, Zurich, July 2004.

E. Rosskam, Airport check-in workers: Management practices and worker health, American Public Health Association, Occupational Safety and Health Section Newsletter, May 2004.

E. Rosskam, Barefoot Research for improving workers’ security, American Public Health Association, Occupational Safety and Health Section Newsletter, May 2004.

E. Rosskam, Stress at work and workers’ health, Swiss Management Magazine, April 2004.

E. Rosskam, Chinese workers never die: Immortality or elusive statistics, New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy, Vol. 14, No. 1, New York, pp.1-2, 2004.

E. Rosskam, Health care facilities in the Ukraine, New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 349-351, 2003.

E. Rosskam, Barefoot Research to improve working conditions and workers’ security in developing countries, Proceedings of the International Ergonomics Association, Seoul, pp. 344-347, August, 2003.

E. Rosskam, Airport check-in work: Consequences for worker health and management practices, Proceedings of the International Ergonomics Association, Seoul, pp. 263-266, August, 2003.

E. Rosskam, Work security in a global economy, in Balancing Globalization with Social Responsibility: Perspectives on Work Security, Heath, and Environment in the Global Economy, special issue of New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy, Vol. 13, No.1, pp. 19-25, 2003.

E. Rosskam, Foreword in Balancing Globalization with Social Responsibility: Perspectives on Work Security, Heath, and Environment in the Global Economy, special issue of New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy, Vol. 13, No.1, p. 1, 2003.

E. Rosskam, No Pills, no bandages, nothing, Focus on the Public Services, Public Services International, Vol. 2, Ferney-Voltaire, pp. 24-25, 2003.

E. Rosskam, Do Swiss managers realise that workers know best?, Management Made Swiss, University of Lausanne, School of Management, Lausanne, June, 2003.

E. Rosskam, Check out the check-in: Airport work hazards, Labor Education, Vol. 1, No. 126, International Labor Office, Geneva, pp. 87-91, 2001. Also in Spanish and French.

E. Rosskam, Participatory/problem-based methods and techniques for training in health and safety, New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 215-227, 2001.

E. Rosskam, Training needs for improving the quality of working life in agriculture, Turkish Journal of Occupational Health and Safety, Vol. 7, Istanbul, pp. 42-47, 2001.

E. Rosskam, Women work to close the “occupational safety gender gap, World of Work, No. 36, International Labor Office, Geneva, 2000. Also in French, Spanish, Russian, German, Hindi.

E. Rosskam, Women moving mountains: Women workers in occupational safety and health, Women & Environment International Journal, No. 48/49, University of Toronto, Toronto, 2000.

E. Rosskam, Participatory/problem-based methods and techniques for training in health and safety, European Centre for Occupational Health, Safety and the Environment, Glasgow, 2000.

E. Rosskam, Women moving mountains: Women workers in occupational safety and health, ILO Gender Training Kit, International Labor Office, Geneva, 2000.

E. Rosskam, Meeting the challenge of privatization: Its impact on occupational health and safety, public health and environmental protection, special issue of New Solutions: A Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health Policy, Vol. 8, No. 4, 1998.

E. Rosskam, P. Baichoo, Preventing workplace injuries and illnesses through ergonomics, World of Work, No. 21, International Labor Office, Geneva, pp. 5-8, 1997. Also in French, Spanish, Russian, German, Hindi.