Worker safety under siege : labor, capital, and the politics of workplace safety in a deregulated world / Vernon Mogensen, editor.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Mogensen, Vernon, 1952-
Language:English
Published: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [2006], ©2006.
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Physical Description:xxix, 242 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Acts of God, acts of man : the invisibility of workplace death / Jordan Barab
  • Criminal neglect : how dangerous employers stay safe from prosecution / Rory O'Neill
  • Regulating risk at work : is expert paternalism the answer to worker irrationality? / Peter Dorman
  • Silicosis and the ongoing struggle to protect workers' health / Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner
  • How safe are U.S. workplaces for Spanish speaking workers? / Laura H. Rhodes
  • Got air? The campaign to improve indoor air quality at the City University of New York / Joan Greenbaum and David Kotelchuck
  • State or society? The rise and repeal of OSHA's ergonomics standard / Vernon Mogensen
  • The 10 percenters : gender, nationality, and occupational health in Canada / Penney Kome
  • All that is solid melts into air : worker participation and occupational health and safety regulation in Ontario, 1970-2000 / Robert Storey and Eric Tucker
  • The sinking of the neoliberal P-36 platform in Brazil / Carlos Eduardo Siqueira and Nadia Haiama-Neurohr
  • Health and safety at work in Russia and Hungary : illusion and reality in the transition crisis / Michael Haynes and Rumy Husan.