Despite the immense literature on the social history of industrialization and workers’ political movements, there had been virtually no published work on social history of health hazards and of work-related diseases. First published in 1985, this book is the first to explore this neglected area from the perspective of social history.
Despite the immense literature on the social history of industrialization and workers’ political movements, there had been virtually no published work on the social history of health hazards and of work-related diseases. First published in 1985, The Social History of Occupational Health is the first to explore this neglected area from the perspective of social history.
The chapters focus on several issues, placing health at work in a socio-political context. The issues include questions of industrial compensation and the enforcement of safety standards in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as related to controversies of the time on standards of living during industrialization. A number of chapters present international comparisons, particularly regarding working conditions and social policy in Britain and Germany, for example concerning legislation, labour relations, and health and safety standards. Other chapters consider safety at work councils in Italy under fascism and working conditions of women in the 1914–18 war. This book will be a beneficial read for social historians and medical sociologists.
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Review of the first publication:
The editor of this collection of essays ought to be highly commended on his illumination of a grossly neglected, under-researched, indeed, marginalised area of social historythe interconnections between work and health. This book is most welcome
Arthur J. McIvor, Scottish Economic and Social History
Preface Foreword Michael Meacehr MP. Chief Opposition Spokesman on
Health and Social Security Part One: Introductory
1. Linking Self Help and
Medical Science: The Social History of Occupational Health
2. The Social
History of Occupational Medicine and Factory Health Services in the Federal
Republic of Germany Part Two: Social Conditions and Risk Factors
3. From
Workmens Diseases to Occupational Diseases: the Impact of Experts Concepts
on Workers Attitudes
4. Disease, Labour Migration and Technological Change:
The Case of the Cornish Miners
5. T.N.T. Poisoning and the Employment of
Women Workers in the First World War
6. Tuberculosis, Silicosis and the State
Industry in North Wales, 19271939
7. A Patient in Need of Care: German
Occupational Health Statistics
8. Coronary Heart Disease: A Disease of
Affluence or a Disease of Industry? Part Three: Compensation
9. The Rise and
Decline of Workmens Compensation
10. What is an Accident? Part Four:
Preventive Policies
11. Workers Insurance versus Protection of the Workers:
State Social Policy in Imperial Germany
12. An Inspector Calls: Health and
Safety at Work in Inter-war Britain
13. The Golden Factory. Industrial
Health and Scientific Management in an Italian Light Engineering Firm.
Magnetti Marelli in the Fascist Period
Paul Weindling is Professor emeritus at Oxford Brookes University, UK. His research interests include the history of eugenics and social welfare, victims of Nazi coerced research and medical experiments, and the history of international health.
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