"Hard Work: Defining Physical Work Performance Requirements" focuses on physically demanding occupations that require strength and stamina, such as law enforcement, structural and wildland firefighting, mining, forestry, and the military. It is the first book to examine the relationship of recruitment practices, physical training, and physical evaluation to the intricate environment of corporations, labor organizations, the legal system, and employment rights. "Hard Work" assists readers in making intelligent and informed decisions resulting in a safer, healthier, and more productive work force. Authors Brian Sharkey and Paul Davis have spent more than 70 years combined researching worker performance in physically demanding professions. "Hard Work" brings their perspective as exercise scientists to an examination of these factors: " Work requirements and capacity for physically demanding jobs; " Physical characteristics of the "athlete-worker," including...