Crisis in the Workplace: Occupational Disease and Injury : a Report to the Ford FoundationMonograph analysing occupational health and occupational safety in the USA, with special reference to legal aspects and political aspects - comments on relevant labour legislation (the occupational safety and health act of 1970), and discusses economic implications, information and labour force considerations, employment accident benefit, private sector activities, rural workers, etc. Bibliography pp. 577 to 579, flow charts, references and statistical tables. |
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