The Home Office and the Dangerous Trades
The Home Office and the Dangerous Trades

Author: P.W.J. Bartrip

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-08-22

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9004333487

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This book is the first in-depth study of occupational health in nineteenth and early-twentieth century Britain. As such it is an important contribution to the burgeoning literature on the history of health in the workplace. It focuses on the first four diseases to receive bureaucratic and legislative recognition: lead, arsenic and phosphorus poisoning and anthrax. As such it traces the emergence of medical knowledge and growth in public concern about the impact of these diseases in several major industries including pottery manufacture, matchmaking, wool-sorting and the multifarious trades in which arsenic was used as a raw material. It considers the process of state intervention taking due account of the influence of government inspectors, ‘moral entrepreneurs’ and various interest groups.

Dangerous Trade
Dangerous Trade

Author: Christopher Sellers

Publisher: Temple University Press

Published: 2011-12-22

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1439904707

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From anthrax to asbestos to pesticides, industrial toxins and pollutants have troubled the world for the past century and longer. Environmental hazards from industry remain one of the world's foremost killers.Dangerous Trade establishes historical groundwork for a better understanding of how and why these hazards continue to threaten our shrinking world. In this timely collection, an international group of scholars casts a rigorous eye towards efforts to combat these ailments. Dangerous Trade contains a wide range of case studies that illuminate transnational movements of risk—from the colonial plantations of Indonesia to compensation laws in late 19th century Britain, and from the occupational medicine clinics of 1960s New York City to the burning of electronic waste in early twenty-first century Uruguay. The essays in Dangerous Trade provide an unprecedented broad perspective of the dangers stirred up by industrial activity across the globe, as well as the voices rasied to remedy them.

Not Only The Dangerous Trades
Not Only The Dangerous Trades

Author: Barbara Harrison

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2005-08-19

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 113574873X

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Using original research and focusing on occupational ill-health in relation to women workers, this book presents a perspective for the analysis of both gender and work and work and ill-health. The author gives a critique of traditional theoretical accounts of gender relations, state intervention and industrial ill-health. The chapters examine the extent to which feminist activists got involved in debates about health and industrial work, and show how activists went beyond the concerns of suffrage.; The book presents a historical period which was marked by a change in the role of the state with respect to intervention in industrial conditions, and analyses the coincidence of this with three other significant developments: the growth of expertise in industrial disease; the employment of women in the factory to take on responsibilities in relation to other women; and changes in the direction of feminist activism. In light of this analysis, the author suggests that some theoretical approaches to both gender relations and health and safety requirements require modification.

Dangerous Trades
Dangerous Trades

Author: Sir Thomas Oliver

Publisher: Thoemmes

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13:

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In Dangerous Trades, Thomas Oliver set out to compile all the available knowledge about the kinds of industrial health and safety issues that existed in every workplace in the late 19th century, and suggest remedies for these problems.