Worker Safety Under Siege: Labor, Capital, and the Politics of Workplace Safety in a Deregulated World

by Vernon Mogensen

Overview

This eye-opening book shows how the rights of workers to safe and healthful workplaces are under greater attack today than at any time since the passage of the landmark Occupational Safety and Health Act in 1970. 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. First, the economy has shifted from an industrial base to a white collar/service base, which includes more women workers than ever before - yet many of the safety and health problems that affect women are not being adequately addressed. Second, free market ideology and globalization have served to undermine worker safety and health laws. And finally, the effects of 9/11 have exacerbated the trend toward weakening workers' rights and safety standards in the name of national security.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765614490
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/15/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Part I Free-Market Ideology and the Evisceration of Workers’ Safety Rights; Chapter 1 Acts of God, Acts of Man, Jordan Barab; Chapter 2 Criminal Neglect, Rory O’Neill; Chapter 3 Regulating Risk at Work, Peter Dorman; Part II Old and New Challenges to Occupational Safety and Health in the United States; Chapter 4 Silicosis and the Ongoing Struggle to Protect Workers’ Health, Gerald Markowitz, David Rosner; Chapter 5 How Safe Are U.S. Workplaces for Spanish Speaking Workers?, Laura H. Rhodes; Chapter 6 Got Air?, Joan Greenbaum, David Kotelchuck; Chapter 7 State or Society?, Vernon Mogensen; Part III The Impact of Neoliberalism on Workers’ Safety Rights Abroad; Chapter 8 The 10 Percenters, Penney Kome; Chapter 9 All That Is Solid Melts Into Air, Robert Storey, Eric Tucker; Chapter 10 The Sinking of the Neoliberal P-36 Platform in Brazil, Carlos Eduardo Siqueira, Nadia Haiama-Neurohr; Chapter 11 Health and Safety at Work in Russia and Hungary, Michael Haynes, Rumy Husan;