Author: Christopher Sellers
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1439904707
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
From anthrax to asbestos to pesticides, industrial toxins and pollutants have troubled the world for the past century and longer. Environmental hazards from industry remain one of the world's foremost killers.Dangerous Trade establishes historical groundwork for a better understanding of how and why these hazards continue to threaten our shrinking world. In this timely collection, an international group of scholars casts a rigorous eye towards efforts to combat these ailments. Dangerous Trade contains a wide range of case studies that illuminate transnational movements of risk—from the colonial plantations of Indonesia to compensation laws in late 19th century Britain, and from the occupational medicine clinics of 1960s New York City to the burning of electronic waste in early twenty-first century Uruguay. The essays in Dangerous Trade provide an unprecedented broad perspective of the dangers stirred up by industrial activity across the globe, as well as the voices rasied to remedy them.
Dangerous Trade
Author: Christopher Sellers
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1439904707
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
From anthrax to asbestos to pesticides, industrial toxins and pollutants have troubled the world for the past century and longer. Environmental hazards from industry remain one of the world's foremost killers.Dangerous Trade establishes historical groundwork for a better understanding of how and why these hazards continue to threaten our shrinking world. In this timely collection, an international group of scholars casts a rigorous eye towards efforts to combat these ailments. Dangerous Trade contains a wide range of case studies that illuminate transnational movements of risk—from the colonial plantations of Indonesia to compensation laws in late 19th century Britain, and from the occupational medicine clinics of 1960s New York City to the burning of electronic waste in early twenty-first century Uruguay. The essays in Dangerous Trade provide an unprecedented broad perspective of the dangers stirred up by industrial activity across the globe, as well as the voices rasied to remedy them.
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1439904707
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
From anthrax to asbestos to pesticides, industrial toxins and pollutants have troubled the world for the past century and longer. Environmental hazards from industry remain one of the world's foremost killers.Dangerous Trade establishes historical groundwork for a better understanding of how and why these hazards continue to threaten our shrinking world. In this timely collection, an international group of scholars casts a rigorous eye towards efforts to combat these ailments. Dangerous Trade contains a wide range of case studies that illuminate transnational movements of risk—from the colonial plantations of Indonesia to compensation laws in late 19th century Britain, and from the occupational medicine clinics of 1960s New York City to the burning of electronic waste in early twenty-first century Uruguay. The essays in Dangerous Trade provide an unprecedented broad perspective of the dangers stirred up by industrial activity across the globe, as well as the voices rasied to remedy them.
Not Only The Dangerous Trades
Author: Barbara Harrison
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1135748748
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Focusing on occupational ill-health in relation to women, this book examines the relationships between gender, work and illness from 1880 to 1914. It looks at the part played by feminist activists in debates about health and industrial work and shows how they went beyond the concerns of suffrage.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1135748748
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Focusing on occupational ill-health in relation to women, this book examines the relationships between gender, work and illness from 1880 to 1914. It looks at the part played by feminist activists in debates about health and industrial work and shows how they went beyond the concerns of suffrage.
The Origin of the Welfare State in England and Germany, 1850-1914
Author: E. P. Hennock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521592127
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
This book offers a comparison of the origins of the welfare state in England and Germany (1850-1914).
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521592127
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
This book offers a comparison of the origins of the welfare state in England and Germany (1850-1914).
The Electrical Journal
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Category : Electric engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1368
Book Description
The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1636
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1636
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
British Medical Journal
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Toxicants, Health and Regulation since 1945
Author: Nathalie Jas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317319699
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The number of substances potentially dangerous to our health and environment is constantly increasing. The papers in this volume examine the concurrent rise of pollutants and the regulations designed to police their use.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317319699
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The number of substances potentially dangerous to our health and environment is constantly increasing. The papers in this volume examine the concurrent rise of pollutants and the regulations designed to police their use.
Ji xie gong cheng shi
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Category : Mechanical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mechanical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
The Parliamentary Debates
Author: Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1176
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1176
Book Description
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Author: American Academy of Political and Social Science
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description