1st Edition

A History of the Workplace Environment and Health at Stake

Edited By Lars Bluma, Judith Rainhorn Copyright 2015
154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

Interest in the history of the workplace is on the rise. Recent work in this area has combined traditional methods and theories of social history with new approaches and new questions. It constitutes a ‘topical contact zone’, a particularly dynamic field of research at the junction of social history, history of occupational health and safety, history of technology and the industrial environment.... Read more

1. History of the workplace: Environment and health at stake – An introduction Judith Rainhorn and Lars Bluma  2. The hygienic movement and German mining 1890 – 1914 Lars Bluma  3. The banning of white lead: French and American experiences in a comparative perspective (early twentieth century) Judith Rainhorn  4. Aluminium in health and food: a gradual global approach Florence Hachez-Leroy  5. Fiddling, drinking and stealing: moral code in the Soviet Estonian mining industry Eeva Kesküla  6. Hygienists, workers’ bodies and machines in nineteenth-century France Thomas Le Roux  7. The factory as environment: social engineering and the ecology of industrial workplaces in inter-war Germany Timo Luks  8. The ideal of Lebensraum and the spatial order of power at German factories, 1900 – 45 Karsten Uhl

Biography

Lars Bluma is senior researcher at the German Mining Museum in Bochum, Germany. He is Adjunct Professor at the Historical Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.



Judith Rainhorn is Associate Professor at the Université of Lille-Nord de France, Valenciennes, France, member of Esopp, EHESS-Sciences Po, Paris, France, and an alumna of the Ecole normale supérieure.