Worker Safety Under Siege

Shows how the rights of workers to safe and healthful workplaces are under attack, since the passage of the landmark Occupational Safety and Health Act in 1970. This collection is organized around thematic issues posing significant challenges to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's ability to protect workers' safety and health.

"The quality of life on the job is surely the most vital issue to workers today yet all but ignored by employers and unions. Mogensen's collection brings to life the history and politics of the workplace and the struggles over safety and health that surely lie ahead for the labor movement in the U.S. and beyond. This book is essential reading for all of us seeking to grasp labor's forgotten dilemma." - Immanuel Ness, Brooklyn College, City University of New York "Vern Mogensen has put together an eye-opening collection of essays on the politics of workplace safety. U.S. mines, mills and factories have always been exceptionally dangerous. But gradually over the course of the 20th century the pressures of unions and advocacy groups succeeded in establishing a measure of government regulation to protect the lives and limbs of workers. Now, the business-led conservative movement has undermined and reversed those achievements, even while new technologies create new dangers. Read this book for a mutli-faceted examination of a problem that is in danger of slipping from view." - Frances Fox Piven, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center"