Environmental Unions - Labor and the Superfund

Informationen zum Autor Craig Statin Zusammenfassung During the 1970s and 1980s, a hazardous waste management industry emerged in the US, driven by government and polluting industry responses to a hazardous waste crisis. This title presents a history of labor's success on the coattails of the environmental movement and in the middle of a rightward shift in US politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Robert Forrant, Charles Levenstein, Craig Slatin, Craig Levenstein Slatin, John Wooding
• Publisher: Baywood pub co
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.03.2009
• EAN: 9780895033826
• ISBN: 978-0-89503-382-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Work, Health and Environment Series; Work, Health and Environment Series
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration