264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
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During the 1970s and 1980s, a hazardous waste management industry emerged in the U.S., driven by government and polluting industry responses to a hazardous waste crisis. In 1979, labor unions began to seek federal health and safety protections for workers in that industry and for firefighters responding to hazardous materials fires. Those efforts led to a worker health and safety section in the... Read more
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
Cleaning Up the 20th-Century Mess: Protecting the Workers Who Do It
Chapter 2
Workers on Poisoned Ground
Chapter 3
Moving Congress to Mandate Worker Protection
Chapter 4
A Fair Shake and Peer Review
Chapter 5
Cohesion, Conflicts, and Excellence: The WETP Grows
Chapter 6
OCAW Worker-to-Worker Training
Chapter 7
The L-AGC: "Training Is the Blood That Runs Through Our Veins"
Chapter 8
The Political Economy of Labor's Policy Initiative and Regulation
Chapter 9
The WETP: Protecting Workers, but the Ground Remains Poisoned
Interviews and Correspondence
Index
Biography
Craig Statin
