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Regulating health and safety in the British mining industries, 1800-1914
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Regulating health and safety in the British mining industries, 1800-1914

Author: Catherine Mills
Publisher: Farnham, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, ©2010.
Series: Studies in labour history; Studies in labour history (Ashgate (Firm))
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Explores the emergence and growth of state responsibility for safer and healthier working practices in British mining and the responses of labour and industry to regulation and control. This title is  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Catherine Mills
ISBN: 9780754660873 0754660877
OCLC Number: 323161081
Description: xxv, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Foreword; Introduction; Industrialization and the frequency and perception of risk; The rise of a reforming interest and the mines and Collieries Act of 1842; Organized labour and the Home Office; Intervention in coal mining, 1850-1887; The Kinnaird Commission and the regulation of metalliferous mining; The Metalliferous Mines Regulation Act of 1872; Scientific, technological and medical advances; Hazards and heroics; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Series Title: Studies in labour history; Studies in labour history (Ashgate (Firm))
Responsibility: Catherine Mills.

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