Abstract

The Violence of Omission

This article focuses on the domestic violence that afflict U.S. working men and women. The chief forms of domestic violence are motor vehicle crashes and occupational accidents and diseases. The toll in death and injury from either of these utterly dwarfs the violence committed in street crimes. But while the nation is properly concerned about such crime, it ignores almost completely the far greater death, injury and wage losses on farms, in mines, factories and open-work areas such as construction sites. Industrial firms have long made it a practice to play down the injuries and diseases experienced by workers. In the first place, the definition of what constitutes art injury is decided by an industry-dominated body called the United States of America Standards Institute.