Technology, Law, and the Working Environment: Revised Edition
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.
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Technology, Law, and the Working Environment: Revised Edition
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.
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Technology, Law, and the Working Environment: Revised Edition

Technology, Law, and the Working Environment: Revised Edition

Technology, Law, and the Working Environment: Revised Edition

Technology, Law, and the Working Environment: Revised Edition

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781610913317
Publisher: Island Press
Publication date: 10/01/1996
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 668
File size: 6 MB

About the Author

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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