Table of Contents

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

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Examines shortcomings and proposes improvements in OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

About the Author

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).