Dying for Work: Workers' Safety and Health in Twentieth-Century America

Book Overview

This pathbreaking volume explores the history of occupational safety and health in America from the late nineteenth century to the 1950s. Thirteen essays tell a story of the exploitation of workers as measured by shortened lives, high disease rates, and painful injuries. Scholars from a variety of disciplines examine the history of protection and compensation for injured workers, state and federal involvement, controversies over the dangers of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253205077
• ISBN13: 9780253205070
• Release Date: February 1989
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"