Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-1982
Publication Source
Social Problems
Abstract
This paper analyzes the emergence of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 and finds previous explanations of its origin inadequate. I trace the roots of this law to the protests of rank-and-file workers across the United States at a time when the support of these workers was particularly important to the two main political parties. The protest was directed not only at those employers who operated unsafe and unhealthy workplaces, but also at union officials who paid little or no attention to safety and health issues in negotiating new contracts.
Inclusive pages
13-25
ISBN/ISSN
0037-7791
Document Version
Published Version
Copyright
Copyright © 1982, Society for the Study of Social Problems
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Volume
30
Issue
1
Peer Reviewed
yes
eCommons Citation
Donnelly, Patrick G., "The Origins of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970" (1982). Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work Faculty Publications. 37.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/soc_fac_pub/37
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Comments
This article was later reprinted as a chapter in Government-business Cooperation, 1945-1964: Corporatism in the Post-war Era (Vol. 9 in the series Business and Government in America Since 1870), Robert Himmelberg, Ed. Hamden, CT: Garland Publishing, 1994. (ISBN 978-0815314110)
The item available for download is the chapter from the book, with permission from the publisher pending.