Diseases of occupation from the legislative, social, and medical points of view
Author: Sir Thomas Oliver
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 496
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Author: Sir Thomas Oliver
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 496
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Peter Bartrip
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2006-01-10
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1441188185
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeyond the Factory Gates examines the issue of asbestos and health in the USA between the early 1900's to the mid-1970s. Areas covered include the emergence of medical concern about the three fatal diseases related to asbestos (asbestosis, lung cancer and mesothelioma); the actions of the US Navy (the main consumer of asbestos-based insulation products); the response of the federal government before and after enactment of the Occupational Safety and Health Act in 1970; and the roles of organized labour and the asbestos industry. The book provides an important insight into occupational health and its regulation in twentieth century America, and is original in several ways. First, there is no satisfactory history of asbestos, health and medicine in the USA - a major gap in the literature. Second, no previous publication has examined the asbestos issue 'beyond the factory gates' in a non-manufacturing context and explored the complex interactions between organised labour, the US Government, business corporations and the US navy. Finally, Beyond the Factory Gates avoids the one-sided, anti-business interpretations that predominate much of the existing literature. It accepts that the history of asbestos is in many ways a human tragedy, but it rejects simplistic, universalised arguments that this has been a tragedy with a cast only villains, dupes and victims.
Author: Chicago Public Library
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 718
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ezekiel Henry Downey
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joseph Scott MacNutt
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 700
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Industrial Commission of Wisconsin
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 30
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Forbes Gray
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 324
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Claudia Clark
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2000-11-09
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 0807860816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the early twentieth century, a group of women workers hired to apply luminous paint to watch faces and instrument dials found themselves among the first victims of radium poisoning. Claudia Clark's book tells the compelling story of these women, who at first had no idea that the tedious task of dialpainting was any different from the other factory jobs available to them. But after repeated exposure to the radium-laced paint, they began to develop mysterious, often fatal illnesses that they traced to conditions in the workplace. Their fight to have their symptoms recognized as an industrial disease represents an important chapter in the history of modern health and labor policy. Clark's account emphasizes the social and political factors that influenced the responses of the workers, managers, government officials, medical specialists, and legal authorities involved in the case. She enriches the story by exploring contemporary disputes over workplace control, government intervention, and industry-backed medical research. Finally, in appraising the dialpainters' campaign to secure compensation and prevention of further incidents--efforts launched with the help of the reform-minded, middle-class women of the Consumers' League--Clark is able to evaluate the achievements and shortcomings of the industrial health movement as a whole.
Author: Bertha Tannehill
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 1276
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: P.W.J. Bartrip
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-08-22
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9004333487
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.