Sociology: Your Compass for a New World Robert J. Brym and John Lie Wadsworth Group/Thomson Learning © 2003
Chapter 10 Work and the Economy Supplementary Slides
Average Player Salaries, Major League Baseball and National Football League, Millions of dollars Sources: Harrison Donnelly “High Stakes of Sports Economics,” Editorial Research Reports (8 April 1988); “National Football League Annual Salaries, ” Wall Street Journal (1998). On the World Wide Web at (25 February 2000); Hal Bodley “Major League Baseball Salary Report,” USA Today (15 July 1999). On the World Wide Web at (25 February 2000).
Occupations With the Largest Number of Worker Fatalities and Leading Cause of Fatalities by Occupation, U.S.A., 1999 Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics News (17 August 2000). On the World Wide Web at (21 May 2001) p % highway crash, jack-knifing 34% tractor-related 49% homicide 26% falls 29% contact with objects and equipment varied 64% falling trees 32% vehicle 33% electrocution 50% falls Number of Fatalities in 1999
Rate of Nonfatal Occupational Injuries Per 100 Workers by Industry, USA, 1999 Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics News (12 December 2000). On the World Wide Web at (21 May 2001) pp Nonfatal Injuries per 100 Workers in 1999