workers' objections to protective policies in American industries during World War Two. Arwen Mohun (University of Delaware) addressed the provocative question of why workers sometimes willingly risked their health, discussing the calculus of risk as a social construct shaped by labor and capital. Patricia Reeve (Boston College) waded in deep theoreti cal waters, illustrating the construction of workers' in nineteenth century labor law. Jamie Bronstein (New Mexico State University) com pared workers' accounts of accidents with those in the mainstream press: Were injured workers heroes?or victims? Unfortunate?or punished sin ners? Illustrations of a Victorian fascination with bloody bodies sparked a comment by Mark Aldrich (Smith College) that the deconstruction of workers' has a rather literal meaning in these contexts. Gerald Markowitz (Graduate Center, City University of New York) and David Rosner (Columbia University School of Public Health) re minded workshop participants that much work remains for those who would challenge business definitions of health and obfuscation of industrial and environmental disease. Updating their work on silicosis, a of the according to the professional and business community, they dem onstrated that silicosis never vanished and is still claiming lives. New clus ters of silicosis have arisen among America's most unorganized and disen franchised workers in shipyards and refineries in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas?revelations that angered workshop participants. The work shops deepened participants' understanding of how business interests con trol disease definition and health ideologies on both sides of the factory wall. And yet participants also learned about moments when that domina tion, while successful, has been at least temporarily challenged. In many panels and workshops, presenters and members of the audience alike agreed that the power of cross-class organizing in the past suggests strate gies for workers and citizens today.