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Dying for Work

Dying for Work Workers' Safety and Health in Twentieth-Century America

Paperback (22 Feb 1989)

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Publisher's Synopsis

This pathbreaking volume explores the history of occupational safety and health in America from the late nineteenth century to the 1950s. Thirteen essays tell a story of the exploitation of workers as measured by shortened lives, high disease rates, and painful injuries. Scholars from a variety of disciplines examine the history of protection and compensation for injured workers, state and federal involvement, controversies over the dangers of lead, and the three emblematic industrial diseases of this century-radium poisoning, asbestos-related diseases, and brown lung.

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Indiana University Press

Book information

ISBN: 9780253205070
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 422g
Height: 235mm
Width: 156mm
Spine width: 21mm