Workers at Risk

THOMAS O. McGARITY is Farish Professor of Law at the University of Texas in Austin. He is the author of Reinventing Rationality (1991). SIDNEY A. SHAPIRO is Rounds Professor of Law at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. He is the author (with Joseph Tomain) of Regulatory Law and Policy (1992).

OSHA's Failed Promise The Plight of America's Workers Regulatory Failure and Reform OSHA's History The Nixon/Ford Years: Inauspicious Beginnings The Carter Years: OSHA on the Move The Reagan Years: Going Backward The Reagan Years: Inching Forward The Reagan Years: Killing Time The Reagan Years: Tying Up Loose Ends The Reagan Years: New Initiatives The Reagan Years: Weakening Enforcement The Bush Years: An Identity Crisis Internal Reforms: Better Management for OSHA Making OSHA More Efficient: Setting Priorities and Eliminating Bottlenecks More Bang for the Buck: Alternative Methods of Regulation and Implementation Ensuring Compliance: The Puzzle of Enforcement External Reforms: Who Is in Charge? The President's Role: OSHA OSHRC's Role: The Failure of the Split-Enforcement Arrangement The Court's Role: Judicial Review and OSHA External Reforms: Changing OSHA's Mandate OSHA and Overregulation: Should Cost-Benefit Analysis Apply? Economics and OSHA: Cost-Benefit Analysis and Underregulation Modeling EPA: A New Mandate for OSHA External Reforms: Empowering Workers Lighting a Fire: When OSHA Is a Reluctant Regulator Empowering Workers: Enforcing the OSH Act Empowering Workers: Rethinking Employment Relationships Selected Bibliography Index