Book chapter
The Priority of Safety
Robust Unionism
15 May 2019
Abstract
To understand labor’s motivation to achieve a laudable record on safety, one should read the transcript of a typical congressional hearing on worklife hazards. In April 1988, for example, witnesses before the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee told tales of horror of the kind that have become familiar:¹
An officer of a Massachusetts-based building and construction trades council told how he had asked an OSHA field office to inspect a GM site where workers were in danger. OSHA, however, required a formal complaint in writing. It was still being processed when a nineteen-yearold apprentice roofer, who had expressed concern
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Details
- Title
- The Priority of Safety
- Creators
- ARTHUR B. Shostak
- Publication Details
- Robust Unionism
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Sociology; Culture and Communication [Historical]
- Other Identifier
- 991020705458804721