Void Where Prohibited: Rest Breaks and the Right to Urinate on Company Time

Nygaard, Ingrid, M.D.,Linder, Marc

ISBN 10: 0801433908 / ISBN 13: 9780801433900

Published by NCROL, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Void Where Prohibited: Rest Breaks and the Right to Urinate on Company Time
• Publisher: NCROL
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801433908
• ISBN 13: 9780801433900
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

"I read this informative book with disbelief and mounting rage. Being denied the biologic right to urinate not only injures the kidneys but is probably a potent risk factor for heart problems. It has been amply demonstrated that work pressure, no-exit situations, and psychologic stressors predispose to progressions of coronary vascular disease. I can think of few stresses more intolerable than the pressures of a full bladder. Not even criminals in solitary confinement confront such torment. This is a vitally important book. It merits the widest dissemination. Without public pressure, such demeaning of human beings will not be halted."--Bernard Lown, M.D., Harvard School of Public Health

Although federal and state regulations require employers to provide toilets, government agencies, incredibly, do not require employers to permit workers to use them. Marc Linder, a labor lawyer and political economist, and Ingrid Nygaard, a physician specializing in urogynecology, place this regulatory breakdown in the wider context of the history of labor-management struggles over rest periods. They emphasize the physiological consequences that workers suffer when they are not allowed to interrupt work to rest or urinate.