Technology, Law, and the Working Environment: Revised Edition
Technology, Law, and the Working Environment: Revised Edition
by Nicholas A. Ashford and Charles C. Caldart
Island Press, 1996 eISBN: 978-1-61091-331-7 | Paper: 978-1-55963-446-5 Library of Congress Classification KF3570.A78 1996 Dewey Decimal Classification 344.730465
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Technology, Law, and the Working Environment provides a thorough discussion of the legal issues relevant to technology-related workplace problems. It includes detailed chapters that examine occupational health and safety, toxic substance regulations, technology bargaining, and the law as it applies to the work environment. The authors explore the scope of right-to-know requirements and other worker rights, and examine the legal consequences of injury and disease for both workers and firms.After discussing the evolution of technology, work, and health since the turn of the century, the authors explore the economic and political forces that spurred the development of a variety of legal responses.Among the topics considered are: costs of occupational disease and injury market alternatives to regulating health and safety the role of economic considerations in setting standards the usefulness of economic analysis in regulatory decisionmaking the relationship between environmental regulation and workplace regulation Throughout, the text is supplemented with excerpts from key judicial decisions and selected expert commentaries that provide valuable insights into how to use the law to best effect in the workplace.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Nicholas A. Ashford is professor of technology and policy at MIT and adjunct faculty at the Harvard and Boston University Schools of Public Health.
Charles C. Caldart is lecturer in law and technology in the Department of Civil Engineering and research associate at the Center for Technology, Policy, and Industrial Development at MIT. He is also director of litigation at the National Environmental Law Center.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Technology, Work, and Health
Chapter 2. Administrative Law
Chapter 3. The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970
Chapter 4. The Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976
Chapter 5. Economic Issues in Occupational Health and Safety
Chapter 6. Regulation of Labor-Management Relations under the National Labor Relations Act
Chapter 7. Toxics Information Transfer in the Workplace
Chapter 8. Retaliatory Employment Practices
Chapter 9. Compensation for Occupational Injury and Disease
Chapter 10. The Relationship Between Environmental and Workplace Regulation
Appendix A. The Occupational Safety and Health Act
Appendix B. The Toxic Substances Control Act
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