Worker safety under siege
Subtitle: labor, capital, and the politics of workplace safety in a deregulated world
By: [edited by] Vernon Mogensen.
Contributors: Mogensen, Vernon, 1952-
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Armonk, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Industrial hygiene.; Industrial safety.
Description: Shows how the right of workers to safe and healthful workplaces is under attack. This collection is organized around three thematic issues that pose significant challenges to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's ability to protect workers'safety and health.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Criminal neglect : how dangerous employers stay safe from prosecution / Rory O'Neill; title: Regulating risk at work : is expert paternalism the answer to workers irrationality? / Peter Dorman; title: Silicosis and the on-going struggle to protect workers's health / Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner; title: How safe are U.S. workplaces for Spanish-speaking workers? / Laura H. Rhodes; title: Got air? The campaign to improve indoor air quality at the City University of New York / Joan Greenbaum and David Kotelchuck; title: State or society? The rise and repeal of OSHA's ergonomics standard / Vernon Mogensen; title: The ten-percenters : gender, nationality, and occupational health in Canada / Penney Kome; title: All that's solid melts into air : worker participation in Ontario, 1970-2000 / Robert Storey and Eric Tucker; title: The sinking of the neoliberal P-36 platform in Brazil / Carlos Eduardo Siqueira and Nadia Haiama-Neurohr; title: Health and safety at work in Russia and Hungary / Michael Haynes and Rumy Husan.