Author: Sir Thomas OliverPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Diseases of occupation from the legislative, social, and medical points of view
Author: Sir Thomas OliverBeyond the Factory Gates
Author: Peter BartripPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441188185
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Beyond 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.
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Author: Chicago Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature
Author: Women and Children in Industry
Author: Industrial Commission of WisconsinPublisher:
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Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Monographic Medicine: The clinical diagnosis of internal diseases
Author: Books that Count
Author: William Forbes GrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Radium Girls
Author: Claudia ClarkPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807860816
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
In 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.
Monographic Medicine: The clinical diagnosis of internal diseases; general diagnosis, infections, respiratory and circulatory systems, by L. F. Barker
Author: Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature
Author: Anna Lorraine GuthriePublisher:
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1286
Book Description