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 ...
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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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Near Fine. Inscribed by Editor. This is a collection of case studies in the history of occupational safety and health by labor and health historians and other experts; the articles are divided into four sections: 1. Labor, Management, and the Legal System: Alternative Approaches to Protecting and Compensating Injured Workers; 2. The Growth of State and Federal Involvement in Safety and Health; 3. Lead: Resistance to the Recognition of an Occupational and Environmental Poison; 4. Radium, Asbestos, and Cotten Dust: Three Paradigmatic Problems of he Twentieth Century; inscribed by David Rosner on the half-title page (black cover with orange & white lettering, very slight corner crease; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)
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