Preface
Foreword Michael Meacehr MP. Chief Opposition Spokesman on Health and Social Security
Part One: Introductory
1. Linking Self Help and Medical Science: The Social History of Occupational Health
Paul Weindling
2. The Social History of Occupational Medicine and Factory Health Services in the Federal Republic of Germany
Alfons Labisch
Part Two: Social Conditions and Risk Factors
3. From Workmen’s Diseases to Occupational Diseases: the Impact of Experts’ Concepts on Workers’ Attitudes
Dietrich Milles
4. Disease, Labour Migration and Technological Change: The Case of the Cornish Miners
Gill Burke
5. T.N.T. Poisoning and the Employment of Women Workers in the First World War
Antonia Ineson and Deborah Thom
6. Tuberculosis, Silicosis and the State Industry in North Wales, 1927–1939
Linda Bryder
7. A Patient in Need of Care: German Occupational Health Statistics
Rainer Müller
8. Coronary Heart Disease: A Disease of Affluence or a Disease of Industry?
Mel Bartley
Part Three: Compensation
9. The Rise and Decline of Workmen’s Compensation
Peter Bartrip
10. What is an Accident?
Karl Figlio
Part Four: Preventive Policies
11. Workers’ Insurance versus Protection of the Workers: State Social Policy in Imperial Germany
Lothar Machtan
12. An Inspector Calls: Health and Safety at Work in Inter-war Britain
Helen Jones
13. ‘The Golden Factory’. Industrial Health and Scientific Management in an Italian Light Engineering Firm. Magnetti Marelli in the Fascist Period
Perry Willson
Biography
Paul Weindling is Professor emeritus at Oxford Brookes University, UK. His research interests include the history of eugenics and social welfare, victims of Nazi coerced research and medical experiments, and the history of international health.
Review of the first publication:
‘The editor of this collection of essays ought to be highly commended on his illumination of a grossly neglected, under-researched, indeed, marginalised area of social history—the interconnections between work and health. This book is most welcome…’
— Arthur J. McIvor, Scottish Economic and Social History
