Miners Lung 1st Edition by Arthur Mcivor, Ronald Johnston ISBN 1138273740 978-1138273740

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ISBN 10: 1138273740 

ISBN 13: 978-1138273740

Author: Arthur Mcivor, Ronald Johnston

Arthur McIvor and Ronald Johnston explore the experience of coal miners’ lung diseases and the attempts at voluntary and legal control of dusty conditions in British mining from the late nineteenth century to the present. In this way, the book addresses the important issues of occupational health and safety within the mining industry; issues that have been severely neglected in studies of health and safety in general. The authors examine the prevalent diseases, notably pneumoconiosis, emphysema and bronchitis, and evaluate the roles of key players such as the doctors, management and employers, the state and the trade unions. Throughout the book, the integration of oral testimony helps to elucidate the attitudes of workers and victims of disease, their ‘machismo’ work culture and socialisation to very high levels of risk on the job, as well as how and why ideas and health mentalities changed over time. This research, taken together with extensive archive material, provides a unique perspective on the nature of work, industrial relations, the meaning of masculinity in the workplace and the wider social impact of industrial disease, disability and death. The effects of contracting dust disease are shown to result invariably in seriously prescribed lifestyles and encroaching isolation. The book will appeal to those working on the history of medicine, industrial relations, social history and business history as well as labour history.

Table of contents: 

I. Interpretations and Context
Methodology and Historiography
Work and the Body in Coal Mining
II. Advancing Medical Knowledge on Dust Disease
Coal Workers’ Pneumoconiosis
Social Medicine and Pioneering Epidemiology
The Last Gasp
III. The Industrial Politics of Miners’ Lung
‘Enlightened Management’? The NCB, the State and Dust
The Trade Unions and Dust
IV. Miners’ Testimonies
Workplace Culture
Breathless Men
V. Conclusion

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