Today, hazardous work kills 2.3 million people each year and
injures millions more. Among the most compelling yet controversial
forms of legal protection for workers is the right to refuse unsafe
work. The rise of globalization, precarious work, neoliberal
politics, attacks on unions, and the idea of individual employment
rights have challenged the protection of occupational health and
safety for workers worldwide. In Hazard or Hardship, Jeffrey
Hilgert presents the protection of refusal rights as a moral and a
human rights question.
Hilgert finds that the protection of the right to refuse unsafe
work, as constituted under international labor standards, is a
failure and calls for a reexamination of worker health and safety
policy from the ground up. The current model of protection follows
an individual employment rights framework, which fails to protect
workers against the inherent social inequalities within the
employment relationship. To adequately protect the right to refuse
as a human right, both in North America and around the world,
Hilgert argues that a broader protection must be granted under a
freedom of association framework. Hazard or Hardship will be a
welcome resource for labor and environmental activists, trade union
leaders, labor lawyers and labor law scholars, industrial relations
experts, human rights advocates, public health professionals, and
specialists in occupational safety and health.
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