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Dying for Work: : Worker's Safety and Health in Twentieth-Century America (Interdisciplinary Studies in History) - Softcover

 
9780253205070: Dying for Work: : Worker's Safety and Health in Twentieth-Century America (Interdisciplinary Studies in History)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0253205077 ISBN 13: 9780253205070
Verlag: Indiana University Press, 1989

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This pathbreaking volume explores the history of occupational safety and health in America from the late nineteenth century to the 1950s. Thirteen essays tell a story of the exploitation of workers as measured by shortened lives, high disease rates, and painful injuries. Scholars from a variety of disciplines examine the history of protection and compensation for injured workers, state and federal involvement, controversies over the dangers of lead, and the three emblematic industrial diseases of this century—radium poisoning, asbestos-related diseases, and brown lung.

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This pathbreaking collection explores the history of occupational safety and health in America from the late nineteenth century of the 1950s. Thirteen essays tell a story of the exploitation of workers as measured by shortened lives, high disease rates, and painful injuries and of the often contentious development of policies and programs to protect them. An interdisciplinary group of scholars examines the history of alternative approaches to protecting and compensating injured workers, the growth of state and federal involvement industrial safety and health, the controversies over the recognition of lead as a poisonous substance and the three emblematic industrial diseases of this century-radium poisoning, asbestos-related diseases, and brown lung.

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Verlag
Indiana University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1989
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0253205077
ISBN 13 
9780253205070
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
256
Herausgeber
Rosner David, Markowitz Gerald E.
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