Acknowledgments
Suffolk University Law Professor David Yamada deserves special mention as a partner in the movement for over a decade. His legal treatise in 2000 introduced workplace bullying to the legal lexicon. He is the author of the Healthy Workplace Bill (HWB). David has worked tirelessly in Massachusetts as educator, advocate, and founder of the New Workplace Institute.
Because our work is evidence-driven and research-based, we are indebted to several researchers. Their work is cited throughout the text and in the Notes section. We express thanks to a special few whose work, more than others, informs ours—Peter Schnall, Stale Einarsen, Loraleigh Keashly, Helge Hoel, and Charlotte Rayner.
The legislative campaign is accomplished by a network of volunteer State Coordinators who are the boots on the ground. Every legislative season, they are more successful as amazing citizen lobbyists. When an antibullying law for the workplace is eventually enacted, they deserve the credit. There would be no nationwide campaign without them, and we are grateful.
Our work in organizations is made possible by the countless internal champions who fought uphill battles to bring us into their workplaces. The Waitt Institute for Violence Prevention, Cindy Waitt, director, funded the nation's first Workplace Bullying in Schools intervention, proving that adults in schools deserve to work in a bullying-free environment, too.
At WBI, we have accomplished small miracles with the help of a too-low-paid ...
