 Inventing the right to know herbert abrams's efforts to democratize access to workplace health hazard information in the 1950sA. Derickson American Journal of Public Health, 2016, vol. 106, issue 2, 237-245 Abstract: In the 1980s, the right-to-know movement won American workers unprecedented access to information about the health hazards they faced on the job. The precursors and origins of these initiatives to extend workplace democracy remain quite obscure. This study brings to light the efforts of one of the early proponents of wider dissemination of information related to hazard recognition and control. Through his work as a state public health official and as an advisor to organized labor in the 1950s, Herbert Abrams was a pioneer in advocating not only broader sharing of knowledge but also more expansive rights of workers and their organizations to act on that knowledge. Keywords: controlled study; health hazard; human; human experiment; organization; public health; recognition; worker; workplace; access to information; adverse effects; civil rights; dangerous goods; history; occupational health; political system; trade union; United States; workplace, dangerous goods, Access to Information; Civil Rights; Democracy; Hazardous Substances; History, 20th Century; Humans; Labor Unions; Occupational Health; Public Health; United States; Workplace (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2015.302939_8 Access Statistics for this article American Journal of Public Health is currently edited by Alfredo Morabia More articles in American Journal of Public Health from American Public Health Association |
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