Arthur Mcivor, Ronald Johnston

Miners' Lung (eBook, ePUB)

A History of Dust Disease in British Coal Mining

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Arthur McIvor and Ronald Johnston explore the experience of coal miners' lung diseases and the attempts at voluntary and legal control of dusty conditions in British mining from the late nineteenth century to the present. The book addresses the important issues of occupational health and safety within the mining industry; issues that have been severely neglected in studies of health and safety in general.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317095828
• Artikelnr.: 49352126

Autorenporträt

Professor Arthur McIvor is Director of the Scottish Oral History Centre, University of Strathclyde, UK. Dr Ronald Johnston is Reader in History at Glasgow Caledonian University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
I: Interpretations and Context
1: Methodology and Historiography
2: Work and the Body in Coal Mining
II: Advancing Medical Knowledge on Dust Disease
3: Coal Workers' Pneumoconiosis
4: Social Medicine and Pioneering Epidemiology
5: The Last Gasp
III: The Industrial Politics of Miners' Lung
6: 'Enlightened Management'? The NCB, the State and Dust
7: The Trade Unions and Dust
IV: Miners' Testimonies
8: Workplace Culture
9: Breathless Men
IV: Conclusion