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140 Monthly Lab. Rev. 1 (2017)

handle is hein.journals/month140 and id is 1 raw text is: MO HL~Y January 2017 Rethinking the right to refuse hazardous work Hazard or Hardship: Crafting Global Norms on the Right to Refuse Unsafe Work. By Jeffrey Hilgert. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2013, 207 pp., $45.00 hardcover. Today, approximately 2 million workers around the world succumb to work-related fatalities and another 270 million suffer nonfatal work-related accidents every year. Many such workers have simply been ignored or even lost their jobs because they acted out or spoke up in the presence of a hazardous work environment. It is important for all workers to feel safe while on the job, as well as feeling protected by international guidelines to refuse work that they are not comfortable executing. Employer-to- employee communication and the global standards for refusing unsafe work are vital in the pursuit of creating the most productive and efficient global economy. In his book Hazard or Hardship: Crafting Global Norms on the Right to Refuse Unsafe Work, Jeffrey Hilgert makes a persuasive argument against the current legal framework regarding the right to refuse unsafe work around the world today. The book explores why some refusal rights are not well protected, and the author tells the story through real human experiences. He explains the consequences of work refusals, the rationale behind the protection laws, the origins and effectiveness of the current legal framework, and the alternatives that could be put in its place. Samuel P. Kissinger Samuel P. Kissinger is an economist in the The biggest and most contentious challenges faced in UI Compensation and VVUkiII crafting global norms to refuse unsafe work pertain to Conditions, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. defining precisely what a hazard is and specifying who gets to decide how dangerous the work truly is. Employees' understanding of hazardous work differs from the understanding of their employers, as well as from that of policymakers and judges. Hilgert is under the impression that the right to refuse unsafe work should be considered a basic and fundamental human right

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