Work, Health and Environment
Guilford Publications (Verlag)
978-1-57230-233-4 (ISBN)
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The US is losing manufacturing jobs at an unprecented rate and many companies claim that increased safety or environmental regulations would force them to eliminate still more jobs. This double bind - between job security and occupational safety - has resulted in frequent clashes between organized labour and the growing environmental movement.; This text seeks to find common ground between trade unionists, environmental and community activists, and scientific and medical researchers. It also identifies major health and safety hazards, describes their impact on workers and communities, and surveys a range of possible solutions.
Charles Levenstein, PhD, Professor of Work Environment Policy at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, is editor of New Solutions: A Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health Policy. An economist and leading researcher on social factors in occupational health, especially occupational lung diseases, he has been active in worker and community health and safety education in the United States and abroad. John Wooding, PhD, is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and Chair of the Department of Regional Economic and Social Development. His research interests include occupational safety and health regulation, regulatory politics, and the politics of environmentalism. He serves on the editorial boards of Capitalism, Nature, Socialism and New Solutions.
Foreword, Anthony Mazzocchi I. The Political Economy of the Work Environment 1. The Political Economy of Occupational Disease, Charles Levenstein and Dominick J. Tuminaro 2. The Changing Structure of Work in the United States: Part 1 The Impact on Income and Benefits, Sarah Kuhn and John Wooding 3. The Changing Structure of Work in the United States: Part 2 The Implications for Health and Welfare, Sarah Kuhn and John Wooding II. Regulation and Public Policy A. Issues in Regulation 4. OSHA at 20: Regulatory Strategy and Institutional Structure in the Work Environment, Charles Noble 5. Undermining the Protections for Coal Miners, James L. Weeks 6. The Myth of Injury Prevention Incentives in Workers' Compensation Insurance, Geoffrey C. Beckwith B. Case Studies: Industrial Disease 7. The Occupational Lead Standard: A Goal Unachieved, A Process in Need of Repair, Ellen K. Silbergeld, Philip J. Landrigan, John R. Froines, and Richard M. Pfeffer 8. Multiple Chemical Sensitivities: Development of Public Policy in the Face of Scientific Uncertainty, Mark R. Cullen 9. New Cancer Theories: Policy Implications for Cancer Prevention, Joel Swartz and Richard Clapp 10. Job Stress and Heart Disease: Evidence and Strategies for Prevention, Paul A. Landisbergis, Susan J. Schurman, Barbara A. Israel, Peter L. Schnall, Margrit K. Hugentobler, Janet Cahill, and Dean Baker 11. Sexual Harassment: A Health Hazard for Women Workers, Renee Goldsmith Kasinsky C. The Use of Science in Policymaking 12. Why Focus on Risk Assessment?, Robert Ginsburg 13. The Risks of Risk Assessment, Ellen Silbergeld 14. Quantitative Risk Assessment and the Illusion of Safety, Robert Ginsburg 15. Risk Assessment and Occupational Health: Overview and Recommendations, C. Mark Smith, Karl T. Kelsy, and David C. Christiani 16. The Risk Wars: Assessing Risk Assessment, Daniel Wartenburg and Caron Chess 17. Alternatives to Risk Assessment: The Example of Dioxin, Mary H. O'Brien 18. Playing Industrial Hygiene to Win, Eileen Senn Tarlau III. Social Conflict and the Politics of Health and Safety A. Worker and Community Struggles 19. Citizens as Regulators of Local Polluters and Toxics Users, Sanford J. Lewis 20. Involving the Community Inside the Factory Walls, Elise Pechter Morse and Joan N. Parker 21. Fighting Environmental Racism, Louis Head and Michael Guerrero 22. Environment for Cooperation: Building Worker Community Coalitions, Millie Buchanan and Gerry Scoppettuolo 23. Texans United Score Historic Victory Against an Ammonia Facility in Houston, Jim Baldauf B. The Struggle for Occupational Health Clinics 24. Organizing for a Statewide Network of Occupational Disease Diagnostic Centers, Dominick J. Tuminaro 25. The Occupational Health Clinical Center Network in New York State: Achievements, Prospects, and Complaints, Michael Lax 26. Community Occupational Health Clinics in the Free Market, Peter Dillard C. Programs for Change 27. Reforming OSHA: Modest Proposals for Majo
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 19.12.1997 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 884 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Arbeits- / Sozial- / Umweltmedizin |
| Wirtschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-57230-233-X / 157230233X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-57230-233-4 / 9781572302334 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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