The home office and the dangerous trades - Couverture souple

Bartrip, P.w.j.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9042012188 ISBN 13 : 9789042012189

Editeur : Editions Rodopi B.V., 2002

Synopsis

This book is the first in-depth study of occupational health in nineteenth and early-twentieth century Britain. As such it is an important contribution to the burgeoning literature on the history of health in the workplace. It focuses on the first four diseases to receive bureaucratic and legislative recognition: lead, arsenic and phosphorus poisoning and anthrax. As such it traces the emergence of medical knowledge and growth in public concern about the impact of these diseases in several major industries including pottery manufacture, matchmaking, wool-sorting and the multifarious trades in which arsenic was used as a raw material. It considers the process of state intervention taking due account of the influence of government inspectors, ‘moral entrepreneurs’ and various interest groups.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Peter Bartrip is Reader in History at University College Northampton and Research Associate at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Wolfson College, Oxford. Previous books include Mirror of Medicine: A History of the BMJ (1990) and The Way from Dusty Death: Turner & Newall and the Regulation of the British Asbestos Industry, 1890s-1970 (2001).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Editions Rodopi B.V.
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9042012188
• ISBN 13: 9789042012189
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 356
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible