Hazards of the job
Subtitle: from industrial disease to environmental health science
By: Christopher C. Sellers.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: Industrial hygiene -- History.; Environmental health -- History.
Description: Hazards of the Job explores the roots of modern environmentalism in the early-twentieth-century United States. It was in the workplace of this era, argues Christopher Sellers, that our contemporary understanding of environmental health dangers first took shape. Sellers traces the creation of a viable industrial hygiene expertise, focused initially on lead and other poisonings among workers, alongside the controversies that it addressed and roused.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-315) and index.