"Two major factors explain the workers' compensation focus. Foremost is that the topic is important and rich enough to recived the full attention of an entire course and entire book. The place of compensation for industrial injuries in our culture and law is not waning and neither is the need for lawyers who are educated to cope with the legal issues ... The second major reason for the exclusive attention to workers' compensation is almostthe mirrori image of the first. Developments in other employment areas, e.g., OSHA, anti-discrimination, and social security, continue to produce new volumes of materials that collectively justify separate treatment independent of workers' compensation". -- PREFACE.