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Dying for Work: Worker's Safety and Health in Twentieth-Century America (Interdisciplinary Studies in History) |
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Book Description
This pathbreaking collection explores the history of occupational safety and health in America from the late nineteenth century of the 1950s. Thirteen essays tell a story of the exploitation of workers as measured by shortened lives, high disease rates, and painful injuries and of the often contentious development of policies and programs to protect them. An interdisciplinary group of scholars examines the history of alternative approaches to protecting and compensa... >> |
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Health and Safety Needs of Older Workers |
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From Book News, Inc.
This report from the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine presents the results of a study on the health and safety needs of older workers. Coverage includes such topics as the demographic characteristics of the older workforce; physical and cognitive differences between older and younger workers; and programs and policies related to safety and the older workforce. The volume concludes with detailed recommendations for further research.Copy... >> |
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What Risk? : Paperback edition |
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From Book News, Inc.
Part of the effort by the European Science and Environment Forum to provide the media and the public with its perspective on current debates about environmental and personal risks, and to point out countervailing studies that are overlooked. The contributors are primarily concerned with highlighting the uncertainties inherent in scientific estimates of risk and with bringing the notion of dose as well as toxicity into questions of regulating substances. Book ... >> |
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