In public health, prevention is a fundamentally political process as both the selection of problems to be addressed and solutions recommended reflect decisions that are informed by economic, social and cultural forces. Yet prevention is often presented as a monolithic enterprise, an objective and scientific discourse that does not take sides. Behind this facade of political neutrality, diversely positioned individuals and groups often fail to find and/or sustain a common ground for shared prevention initiatives. Increasingly, many prevention awareness campaigns focus upon true accounts or injury narratives that serve both as a catalyst to build multipartite consensus through developing shared collaborative prevention discourses and practices and to mobilize public support for health and safety issues. While the use of the true account form is a recommended strategy in the public health literature directed toward practitioners, the engagement of true accounts in prevention campaigns has not been adequately problematised and examined from a critical social theoretical perspective. A qualitative, sociologically oriented case study of the use of the true account form, the commemorative, in young worker safety campaigns is proposed to deepen our understanding of this particular type of prevention intervention in particular and prevention as an enterprise more generally. The study investigates the socio-historical context in which the Young Worker Memorial LifeQuilt, a Canadian young worker educational initiative, emerged and unraveled as a multipartite prevention campaign centered upon the true account form of consensus commemoratives. A key finding is that true accounts of young workers killed on the job are socially mediated to diffuse blame and build consensus between diversely positioned occupational health and safety practitioners and the family survivors of workplace tragedies. What is included and excluded from these true accounts of workplace injuries, as socially constructed narratives in multipartite prevention awareness campaigns, may be, in part, a product of the terms and conditions negotiated between lead players. The true accounts included in collaborative, cross-institutional prevention campaigns, while referencing real events, may be told in ways that accommodate and harmonize the political perspectives of diversely positioned stakeholders. Conversely, the true account form is a potentially problematic strategy for collaborative prevention discourses and practices, as consensus commemoratives can be retold as critical remembrances of workplace death, with the result that the unifying narrative of a shared, collective memory project is undermined. This dissertation finds that the activity of collaboration shapes prevention as a socio-political activity/practice.

In public health, prevention is a fundamentally political process as both the selection of problems to be addressed and solutions recommended reflect decisions that are informed by economic, social and cultural forces. Yet prevention is often presented as a monolithic enterprise, an objective and scientific discourse that does not take sides. Behind this facade of political neutrality, diversely positioned individuals and groups often fail to find and/or sustain a common ground for shared prevention initiatives. Increasingly, many prevention awareness campaigns focus upon true accounts or injury narratives that serve both as a catalyst to build multipartite consensus through developing shared collaborative prevention discourses and practices and to mobilize public support for health and safety issues. While the use of the true account form is a recommended strategy in the public health literature directed toward practitioners, the engagement of true accounts in prevention campaigns has not been adequately problematised and examined from a critical social theoretical perspective. A qualitative, sociologically oriented case study of the use of the true account form, the commemorative, in young worker safety campaigns is proposed to deepen our understanding of this particular type of prevention intervention in particular and prevention as an enterprise more generally. The study investigates the socio-historical context in which the Young Worker Memorial LifeQuilt, a Canadian young worker educational initiative, emerged and unraveled as a multipartite prevention campaign centered upon the true account form of consensus commemoratives. A key finding is that true accounts of young workers killed on the job are socially mediated to diffuse blame and build consensus between diversely positioned occupational health and safety practitioners and the family survivors of workplace tragedies. What is included and excluded from these true accounts of workplace injuries, as socially constructed narratives in multipartite prevention awareness campaigns, may be, in part, a product of the terms and conditions negotiated between lead players. The true accounts included in collaborative, cross-institutional prevention campaigns, while referencing real events, may be told in ways that accommodate and harmonize the political perspectives of diversely positioned stakeholders. Conversely, the true account form is a potentially problematic strategy for collaborative prevention discourses and practices, as consensus commemoratives can be retold as critical remembrances of workplace death, with the result that the unifying narrative of a shared, collective memory project is undermined. This dissertation finds that the activity of collaboration shapes prevention as a socio-political activity/practice.

Работа содержит теоретический анализ отечественной и зарубежной литературы по вопросам молодежной политики на промышленных предприятиях, а также результаты анализа социально-экономического положения Свердловской области, эффективности реализации молодежной политики в ООО «Уральские локомотивы», ПАО «Синарский трубный завод», ФГУП «Уральский электромеханический завод» и АО НПК «Уралвагонзавод». Автор выявил проблемы и разработал адресные предложения по оптимизации молодежной политики на исследуемых предприятиях. Диссертация содержит программы мониторингов эффективности программ адаптации вновь принятых молодых работников и реализации программы «Молодежь» на промышленном предприятии. / The work contains theoretical analysis of Soviet and foreign literature on questions of youth policy at the industrial enterprises, as well as the results of the analysis of the socio-economic situation in the Sverdlovsk region, the efficiency of realization of youth policy at enterprises of Ural locomotives, Sinara tube plant, Urals electro-mechanical plant and Uralvagonzavod. The thesis contains a program of monitoring the effectiveness of the programmes of adaptation of newly hired young workers and the implementation of the Youth programme in an industrial plant.

Работа содержит теоретический анализ отечественной и зарубежной литературы по вопросам адаптации молодых работников на промышленном предприятии, а также результаты эмпирического исследования системы адаптации молодых работников на Качканарском горно-обогатительном комбинате. Автор выявил проблемы адаптации и доказал, что система адаптации молодых работников на предприятии будет более эффективна (оптимальна) при усовершенствовании работы в сфере наставничества. Диссертация содержит проекты «Школа наставников», внедрение которого имеет экономический эффект. / The work contains theoretical analysis of domestic and foreign literature on adaptation of young workers in an industrial plant, as well as the results of empirical research of the system of adaptation of young employees at Kachkanarsky GOK. The author has identified problems of adaptation and proved that the system of adaptation of young employees at the enterprise will be more efficient (optimal) if the area of mentoring will be enhanced. The thesis contains the project "School of masters", the introduction of which has an economic effect.