Author: John Richards
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Category : Woodwork
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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On the Arrangement, Care, and Operation of Woodworking Factories and Machinery
Author: John Richards
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Category : Woodwork
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Category : Woodwork
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1452
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1452
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A practical treatise on mill-gearing ... etc
Author: Thomas Box
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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An Elementary Treatise on Electrical Measurement
Author: Latimer Clark
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Category : Electric measurement
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Category : Electric measurement
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Safety First
Author: Mark Aldrich
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801854057
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The first full account of why the American workplace became so dangerous, and why it is now so much safer. In 1907, American coal mines killed 3,242 men in occupational accidents, probably an all-time high both for the industry and for all laboring accidents in this country. In December alone, two mines at Monongah, West Virginia, blew up, killing 362 men. Railroad accidents that same year killed another 4,534. At a single South Chicago steel plant, 46 workers died on the job. In mines and mills and on railroads, work in America had become more dangerous than in any other advanced nation. Ninety years later, such numbers and events seem extraordinary. Although serious accidents do still occur, industrial jobs in the United States have become vastly and dramatically safer. In Safety First, Mark Aldrich offers the first full account of why the American workplace became so dangerous, and why it is now so much safer. Aldrich, an economist who once served as an OSHA investigator, first describes the increasing dangers of industrial work in late-nineteenth-century America as a result of technological change, careless work practices, and a legal system that minimized employers' responsibility for industrial accidents. He then explores the developments that led to improved safety—government regulation, corporate publicizing of safety measures, and legislation that raised the costs of accidents by requiring employers to pay workmen's compensation. At the heart of these changes, Aldrich contends, was the emergence of a safety ideology that stressed both worker and management responsibility for work accidents—a stunning reversal of earlier attitudes.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801854057
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The first full account of why the American workplace became so dangerous, and why it is now so much safer. In 1907, American coal mines killed 3,242 men in occupational accidents, probably an all-time high both for the industry and for all laboring accidents in this country. In December alone, two mines at Monongah, West Virginia, blew up, killing 362 men. Railroad accidents that same year killed another 4,534. At a single South Chicago steel plant, 46 workers died on the job. In mines and mills and on railroads, work in America had become more dangerous than in any other advanced nation. Ninety years later, such numbers and events seem extraordinary. Although serious accidents do still occur, industrial jobs in the United States have become vastly and dramatically safer. In Safety First, Mark Aldrich offers the first full account of why the American workplace became so dangerous, and why it is now so much safer. Aldrich, an economist who once served as an OSHA investigator, first describes the increasing dangers of industrial work in late-nineteenth-century America as a result of technological change, careless work practices, and a legal system that minimized employers' responsibility for industrial accidents. He then explores the developments that led to improved safety—government regulation, corporate publicizing of safety measures, and legislation that raised the costs of accidents by requiring employers to pay workmen's compensation. At the heart of these changes, Aldrich contends, was the emergence of a safety ideology that stressed both worker and management responsibility for work accidents—a stunning reversal of earlier attitudes.
The Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1770
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1770
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A Practical Treatise on Mill-gearing, Wheels, Shafts, Riggers, Etc., for the Use of Engineers
Author: Thomas Box
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Category : Gearing
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Category : Gearing
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Glances at the Forests of Northern Europe
Author: John Croumbie Brown
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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The Works
Author: Betsy H. Bradley
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195090000
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
While tracing the important developments in industrial architecture over a one-hundred-year period, she demonstrates that as the United States became an industrialized nation, the goals pursued in industrial architecture remained straightforward and constant even as the means to achieve them changed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195090000
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
While tracing the important developments in industrial architecture over a one-hundred-year period, she demonstrates that as the United States became an industrialized nation, the goals pursued in industrial architecture remained straightforward and constant even as the means to achieve them changed.
A Practical Treatise on Heat as Applied to the Useful Arts
Author: Thomas Box
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Category : Heat
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Category : Heat
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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