"During the past two decades the number of repetitive strain injuries has grown with the spread of repetitive motion and computer-automated work in both blue-collar and white-collar sectors of the economy. These injuries now represent the leading safety and health hazard on the job, but many of them can be prevented through the science of ergonomics. Organized labor, women's groups, and committees on occupational safety and health fought for two decades to secure the ergonomics standard, but President Bush repealed it in two months. The attack on, and defeat of, the ergonomics standard was part of a larger corporate effort to discipline the labor force and limit workers' rights."

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