The Home Office and the dangerous trades
Subtitle: regulating occupational disease in Victorian and Edwardian Britain
By: P.W.J. Bartrip
Series: Clio medica -- 68; Wellcome series in the history of medicine
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: Great Britain. -- Home Office -- History; Industrial safety -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain -- History
Description: "This book is the first in-depth study of occupational health in nineteenth and early-twentieth century Britain. As such it is an important contribution to the burgeoning literature on the history of health in the workplace. It focuses on the first four diseases to receive bureaucratic and legislative recognition: lead, arsenic and phosphorus poisoning and anthrax. As such it traces the emergence of medical knowledge and growth in public concern about the impact of these diseases in several major industries including pottery manufacture, matchmaking, wool-sorting and the multifarious trades in which arsenic was used as a raw material. It considers the process of state intervention taking due account of the influence of government inspectors, 'moral entrepreneurs' and various interest groups."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-323) and index