Work, Health and Environment Series
The Great Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912: New Scholarship on the Bread & Roses Strike
1st Edition
By Robert Forrant, Jurg Siegenthaler, Charles Levenstein, John Wooding
November 30, 2014
"In Lawrence, Massachusetts, fully one-half of the population 14 years of age or over is employed in the woolen and worsted mills and cotton mills". Thus begins the federal government's Report on Strike of Textile Workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 . This book follows up, one hundred years ...
Safety or Profit?: International Studies in Governance, Change and the Work Environment
1st Edition
By Theo Nichols, David Walters
March 30, 2014
As the title <em>Safety or Profit?</em> suggests, health and safety at work needs to be understood in the context of the wider political economy. This book brings together contributions informed by this view from internationally recognized scholars. It reviews the governance of health ...
The Toxic Schoolhouse
1st Edition
By Madeleine Kangsen Scammell, Charles Levenstein
March 30, 2014
The Toxic Schoolhouse is a collection of articles on chemical hazards endangering students, teachers, and staff in the education system of the United States and Canada. Some of the articles were originally published in a special issue of New Solutions: A Journal of Occupational and Environmental ...
From Critical Science to Solutions: The Best of Scientific Solutions
1st Edition
By Richard Clapp
May 15, 2012
First Published in 2017. In this volume, the editor collected articles that primarily appeared in the “Scientific Solutions” section of New Solutions, A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy. The articles in the book are grouped into three general categories, starting with ...
Environmental Unions: Labor and the Superfund
1st Edition
By Craig Slatin
December 01, 2009
During the 1970s and 1980s, a hazardous waste management industry emerged in the U.S., driven by government and polluting industry responses to a hazardous waste crisis. In 1979, labor unions began to seek federal health and safety protections for workers in that industry and for firefighters ...
Metal Fatigue: American Bosch and the Demise of Metalworking in the Connecticut River Valley
1st Edition
By Robert Forrant, Charles Levenstein, John Wooding
August 15, 2008
On February 4, 1986, the lives of thousands of workers changed in ways they could only begin to imagine. On that day, United Technologies Corporation ordered the closure of the 76-year-old American Bosch manufacturing plant in Springfield, Massachusetts, capping a nearly 32-year history of job loss...
Barry Commoner's Contribution to the Environmental Movement: Science and Social Action
1st Edition
Edited
By David Kriebel, Mary Lee Dunn
June 15, 2000
Few people have made greater contributions to protecting and improving the environment than the scientist, teacher, activist Dr. Barry Commoner. For half a century, Dr. Commoner has been an international leader in the environmental movement. On the occasion of his eightieth birthday, a symposium ...