Workers at Risk: The Failed Promise of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Pt. I. Osha's Failed Promise. 1. The Plight Of America's Workers. 2. Regulatory Failure And Reform -- Pt. Ii. Osha's History. 3. The Nixon/ford Years: Inauspicious Beginnings. 4. The Carter Years: Osha On The Move. 5. The Reagan Years: Going Backward. 6. The Reagan Years: Inching Forward. 7. The Reagan Years: Killing Time. 8. The Reagan Years: Tying Up Loose Ends. 9. The Reagan Years: New Initiatives. 10. The Reagan Years: Weakening Enforcement. 11. The Bush Years: An Identity Crisis -- Pt. Iii. Internal Reforms: Better Management For Osha. 12. Making Osha More Efficient: Setting Priorities And Eliminating Bottlenecks. 13. More Bang For The Buck: Alterative Methods Of Regulation And Implementation. 14. Ensuring Compliance: The Puzzle Of Enforcement -- Pt. Iv. External Reforms: Who Is In Charge? 15. The President's Role: Osha And Omb. 16. Oshrc's Role: The Failure Of The Split-enforcement Arrangement. 17. The Courts' Role: Judicial Review And Osha -- Pt. V. External Reforms: Changing Osha's Mandate. 18. Osha And Overregulation: Should Cost-benefit Analysis Apply? 19. Economics And Osha: Cost-benefit Analysis And Underregulation. 20. Modeling Epa: A New Mandate For Osha -- Pt. Vi. External Reforms: Empowering Workers. 21. Lighting A Fire: When Osha Is A Reluctant Regulator. 22. Empowering Workers: Enforcing The Osh Act. 23. Empowering Workers: Rethinking Employment Relationships. Thomas O. Mcgarity & Sidney A. Shapiro. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [349]-353) And Index.