Author: J. RichardsPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368178954
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
On the Arrangement, Care, and Operation of Wood-Working Factories and Machinery
Author: J. RichardsPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368178954
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
A practical treatise on mill-gearing ... etc
Author: Thomas BoxWood Conversion by Machinery
Author: John Richards (Mechanical Engineer.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
An Elementary Treatise on Electrical Measurement
Author: Latimer ClarkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric measurement
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
A Practical Treatise on Mill-gearing, Wheels, Shafts, Riggers, Etc., for the Use of Engineers
Author: Thomas BoxSafety First
Author: Mark AldrichPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801854057
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The first full account of why the American workplace became so dangerous, and why it is now so much safer. In 1907, American coal mines killed 3,242 men in occupational accidents, probably an all-time high both for the industry and for all laboring accidents in this country. In December alone, two mines at Monongah, West Virginia, blew up, killing 362 men. Railroad accidents that same year killed another 4,534. At a single South Chicago steel plant, 46 workers died on the job. In mines and mills and on railroads, work in America had become more dangerous than in any other advanced nation. Ninety years later, such numbers and events seem extraordinary. Although serious accidents do still occur, industrial jobs in the United States have become vastly and dramatically safer. In Safety First, Mark Aldrich offers the first full account of why the American workplace became so dangerous, and why it is now so much safer. Aldrich, an economist who once served as an OSHA investigator, first describes the increasing dangers of industrial work in late-nineteenth-century America as a result of technological change, careless work practices, and a legal system that minimized employers' responsibility for industrial accidents. He then explores the developments that led to improved safety—government regulation, corporate publicizing of safety measures, and legislation that raised the costs of accidents by requiring employers to pay workmen's compensation. At the heart of these changes, Aldrich contends, was the emergence of a safety ideology that stressed both worker and management responsibility for work accidents—a stunning reversal of earlier attitudes.
The Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
Author: Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
Author: The Works
Author: Betsy H. BradleyPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195090000
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
While tracing the important developments in industrial architecture over a one-hundred-year period, she demonstrates that as the United States became an industrialized nation, the goals pursued in industrial architecture remained straightforward and constant even as the means to achieve them changed.
Author: John Richards