1st Edition
Regulating Health and Safety in the British Mining Industries, 1800–1914
By Catherine Mills
Copyright 2010
310 Pages
by
Routledge
310 Pages
by
Routledge
310 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores the emergence and growth of state responsibility for safer and healthier working practices in British mining and the responses of labour and industry to expanding regulation and control. It begins with an assessment of working practice in the coal and metalliferous mining industries at the dawn of the nineteenth century and the hazards involved for the miners, before charting... Read more
Contents: Foreword; Introduction; Industrialization and the frequency and nature of risk; The rise of a reforming interest and the Mines and Collieries Act of 1842; Organized labour and the Home Office; Intervention in coal mining, 1850-1887; The Kinnaird Commission and the regulation of metalliferous mining; The Metalliferous Mines Regulation Act of 1872; Scientific, technological and medical advances; Hazards and heroics; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Biography
Dr Catherine Mills, Lecturer in Modern British History, Department of History, Stirling University, UK.
'... an excellent contribution to the history of British labour and the state.' Economic History Review
