The Unrelenting Machine
The Unrelenting Machine

Author: Eddie Crooks

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-03-19

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1471637778

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This is an account of the developments in health and safety law from the Industrial Revolution up to the modern day approach derived from risk assessment. The book records the part played by the Factory Inspectors and others in their endeavours to provide adequate protection to workers in the workplace. The history of exposure to asbestos is also covered.

The Rise and Fall of the Healthy Factory
The Rise and Fall of the Healthy Factory

Author: V. Long

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-12-08

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 0230303838

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The first account of the emergence and demise of preventive health care for workers. It explores how trade unions, employers, doctors and the government reconfigured the relationship between health, productivity and the factory over the course of the twentieth century within a broader political, industrial and social context.

Workers, Unions and Payment in Kind
Workers, Unions and Payment in Kind

Author: Christopher Frank

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-10-25

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 131730957X

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Despite the dramatic expansion of consumer culture from the beginning of the eighteenth century onwards and the developments in retailing, advertising and credit relationships in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there were a significant number of working families in Britain who were not fully free to consume as they chose. These employees were paid in truck, or in goods rather than currency. This book will explore and analyse the changing ways that truck and workplace deductions were experienced by different groups in British society, arguing that it was far more common than has previously been acknowledged. This analysis brings to light issues of class and gender; the discourse of free trade, popular politics and protest; the development of the trade union movement; and the use of the legal system as an instrument for bringing about social and legal change.