The Home Office and the Dangerous Trades: Regulating Occupational Disease in Victorian and Edwardian Britain

P. W. J. Bartrip

ISBN 10: 9042012188 / ISBN 13: 9789042012189

Verlag: Editions Rodopi B. V., 2002

Clean and unmarked; like new aside from sticker on spine and title page. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1124019

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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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: 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).

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Home Office and the Dangerous Trades: ...
Verlag: Editions Rodopi B. V.
Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
Einband: Soft cover
Zustand: Very good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No jacket