Author: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission. Bureau of SafetyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Report of the Director of the Bureau of Safety in Re Investigation of an Accident which Occured on the Pennsylvania Railroad at Altoona, Pa., on November 28, 1925
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission. Bureau of SafetyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the [the Fifty-third] Congress [to the 76th Congress] and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
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Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2476
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
Book Description
Death Rode the Rails
Author: Mark AldrichPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801889073
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
For most of the 19th and much of the 20th centuries, railroads dominated American transportation. They transformed life and captured the imagination. Yet by 1907 railroads had also become the largest cause of violent death in the country, that year claiming the lives of nearly twelve thousand passengers, workers, and others. In Death Rode the Rails Mark Aldrich explores the evolution of railroad safety in the United States by examining a variety of incidents: spectacular train wrecks, smaller accidents in shops and yards that devastated the lives of workers and their families, and the deaths of thousands of women and children killed while walking on or crossing the street-grade tracks. The evolution of railroad safety, Aldrich argues, involved the interplay of market forces, science and technology, and legal and public pressures. He considers the railroad as a system in its entirety: operational realities, technical constraints, economic history, internal politics, and labor management. Aldrich shows that economics initially encouraged American carriers to build and operate cheap and dangerous lines. Only over time did the trade-off between safety and output—shaped by labor markets and public policy—motivate carriers to develop technological improvements that enhanced both productivity and safety. A fascinating account of one of America's most important industries and its dangers, Death Rode the Rails will appeal to scholars of economics and the history of transportation, technology, labor, regulation, safety, and business, as well as to railroad enthusiasts.
CIS Index to U.S. Executive Branch Documents, 1910-1932
Author: Congressional Information ServicePublisher:
ISBN: 9780886924768
Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
CIS Index to U.S. Executive Branch Documents, 1910-1932: Interior Department, Interstate Commerce Commission, Justice Department, Labor Department (4 v.)
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Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Catalogue of the Public Documents of the Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
Book Description
Catalog of Government Publications in the Research Libraries
Author: New York Public Library. Economic and Public Affairs DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description