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.
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.
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
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
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