Catherine Mills

Regulating Health and Safety in the British Mining Industries, 1800-1914

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the emergence and growth of state responsibility for safer and healthier working practices in British mining and the responses of labour and industry to expanding regulation and control. As such it will be valuable to all those with an interest in medical history, occupational health, legal history, and the social history of work in the nineteenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 477g
• ISBN-13: 9781138274204
• ISBN-10: 1138274208
• Artikelnr.: 57056180

Autorenporträt

Dr Catherine Mills, Lecturer in Modern British History, Department of History, Stirling University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Foreword
Introduction
Industrialization and the frequency and nature of risk
The rise of a reforming interest and the Mines and Collieries Act of 1842
Organized labour and the Home Office
Intervention in coal mining, 1850-1887
The Kinnaird Commission and the regulation of metalliferous mining
The Metalliferous Mines Regulation Act of 1872
Scientific, technological and medical advances
Hazards and heroics
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index