Overview
This is an indispensable collection on the crisis of worker health and safety in the United States. This collection offers an all-important lesson for the labor movement: that problems of occupational health and safety are not merely technical problems but rather problems relating to workers' lack of control over the organization of capitalist production.Topics incl. the political economy of occupational disease, undermining the protections for coal miners, etc.
Synopsis
This is an indispensable collection on the crisis of worker health and safety in the United States. This collection offers an all-important lesson for the labor movement: that problems of occupational health and safety are not merely technical problems but rather problems relating to workers' lack of control over the organization of capitalist production.
Editorials
From the Publisher
"A must-read' for anyone--scholar or activist--who is concerned about the degrading and dangerous work conditions in which millions of Americans toil every day, and who also needs to know what we can do to change it." -Daniel Faber, author of Environment Under Fire"This book helps to create the conversations, sometimes the arguments, we need to translate environmental concern into clean production, and worker health and safety into a lived reality." -Eve Spangler, Boston College
"An outstanding book that incisively describes key occupational and environmental health problems and offers options for policy and action....A highly valuable volume for students, and for individuals and organizations involved with any aspect of occupational and environmental health." -Barry S. Levy, President, American Public Health Association