Hazard or Hardship: Crafting Global Norms on the Right to Refuse Unsafe Work

摘要

Occupational health and safety (OHS) was never going to be immune to the rise of neoliberalism and associated changes to work organization and attacks on collective worker representation. This book charts an important but hitherto neglected aspect of social protection in the field of OHS - the right of workers to refuse unsafe work. The right to refuse unsafe work should be inalienable in societies that respect and value their citizens, and it should be defined and institutionally facilitated so it can be exercised in a meaningful way. This book addresses these issues predominantly by examining the North American experience and then relating this back to global labour standards - most notably those developed by the International Labour Organization (ILO).