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Workers' Health And Safety: Whose Costs, Whose Benefits?, Joseph A. Page
Workers' Health And Safety: Whose Costs, Whose Benefits?, Joseph A. Page
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Health and safety on the job remain sources of bitter controversy in the public forums. Businessmen rail against the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for its "dictatorial" enforcement of "oppressive" regulations, leading President Ford in early 1976 to demonstrate sympathy for their concerns. Labor leaders deplore the failure of industry and government to stem the toll of death and disablement from work-related disease. Members of' Congress, responsive to pressures from constituents, fill pages of the Congressional Record with reports of both employer vexations and employee tragedies.
Like ships passing in the night, advocates on both sides tend to regard …