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The Rise and Fall of the Healthy Factory: The Politics of Industrial Health in Britain, 1914-60
Vicky Long
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Description for The Rise and Fall of the Healthy Factory: The Politics of Industrial Health in Britain, 1914-60
Hardcover. The first account of the emergence and demise of preventive health care for workers. It explores how trade unions, employers, doctors and the government reconfigured the relationship between health, productivity and the factory over the course of the twentieth century within a broader political, industrial and social context. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; HBTB; HBTK; KNXC; MBNH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 466.
The first account of the emergence and demise of preventive health care for workers. It explores how trade unions, employers, doctors and the government reconfigured the relationship between health, productivity and the factory over the course of the twentieth century within a broader political, industrial and social context.
The first account of the emergence and demise of preventive health care for workers. It explores how trade unions, employers, doctors and the government reconfigured the relationship between health, productivity and the factory over the course of the twentieth century within a broader political, industrial and social context.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
290
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230283718
SKU
V9780230283718
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Ref
99-15
About Vicky Long
Vicky Long is Senior Lecturer in the History of Health and Healthcare at Glasgow Caledonian University.
Reviews for The Rise and Fall of the Healthy Factory: The Politics of Industrial Health in Britain, 1914-60
'Vicky Long's wide-ranging book makes a welcome contribution to the field by concentrating upon the twentieth-century factory, an area so far largely neglected. The book...offers new insights to historians of labour and industrial relations, business historians, and political historians concerned with the role of the state in twentieth-century society. That the book speaks to these diverse audiences is a mark ... Read more