Bøger af Arthur McIvor

This book draws upon the existing body of literature and incorporates substantial new research to provide an interpretative overview of the social history of work in Britain from the late-Victorian period to 1950.

Explores the experience of coal miners' lung diseases and the attempts at voluntary and legal control of dusty conditions in British mining from the since nineteenth century. In this way, this book addresses the important issues of occupational health and safety within the mining industry notably pneumoconiosis, emphysema and bronchitis.