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OSHA and the Politics of Health Regulation

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  • © 1982

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Authors:
  1. David P. McCaffrey

    1. Graduate School of Public Affairs, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, USA

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Perspectives on Government Regulation

    • David P. McCaffrey
    Pages 1-19

  3. Occupational Disease: Magnitude and Issues of the Problem

    • David P. McCaffrey
    Pages 21-29

  4. Political and Economic Factors in Occupational Health Work

    • David P. McCaffrey
    Pages 31-69

  5. Procedures of and Predictions about OSHA

    • David P. McCaffrey
    Pages 71-80

  6. OSHA’S Chemical Regulations, 1970–1976

    • David P. McCaffrey
    Pages 81-104

  7. OSHA’s Regulations After 1976

    • David P. McCaffrey
    Pages 105-138

  8. Service Activities

    • David P. McCaffrey
    Pages 139-157

  9. Regulatory Balance

    • David P. McCaffrey
    Pages 159-170

  10. Postscript

    • David P. McCaffrey
    Pages 171-174

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 175-192
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About this book

By way of introduction to this fascinating book, let me highlight two of its many contributions. First, it is a good example of something all too rare in sociology: testing competing general theories. Most of us either try to develop or refine theories about how the social world works, and cite convenient data as support, or we select and collect data that will fit some general theoretical position. In the first case, the data playa subor­ dinate role-bits of evidence for our view of life. In the second, the theory plays a subordinate role-a way to make sense of the social behavior we have observed. McCaffrey's position subsumes these two. He has gathered data on an important social agency, but with an im­ plicit problem in mind: which of the several theories about the social world he was exposed to in graduate school would do the best job of interpreting the data? Or, we might just as well turn it around. In a graduate department such as Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, there is a lively, never ending debate about the "truth" of competing perspectives on the political and social world. By selecting a data base and remaining alert to the kind of evidence each theory required, McCaffrey circumvented the usual" data for a theory" vs. "a theory for the data" dilemma that most of us live with.

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  • Graduate School of Public Affairs, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, USA

    David P. McCaffrey

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