Regulating Health and Safety in the British Mining Industries, 1800–1914
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Accident Mortality
Appendix Iii
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British Parliamentary Papers
Carbonic Acid Gas
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Coal Dust
Coal Mines Inspection
colliery
Colliery Explosions
Colliery Owners
Colliery Regulation
comparative mining safety analysis
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Cornish Miners
De La Beche
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explosions
George Grey
industrial regulation
labour history
legislative reform
MacDonagh's Model
MacDonagh’s Model
metalliferous
Metalliferous Mining
Metalliferous Sectors
miners
Newcastle District
nineteenth century Britain
Non-ferrous Miners
occupational disease
Occupational Mortality
papers
parliamentary
Pit Disasters
Plaster Of Paris
regulation
Safety Lamp
sectors
Sir George Grey
south
South Western District
Stone Dust
workplace hazards
Young Man
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- ISBN 9780754660873
- Weight: 703g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2010
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book explores the emergence and growth of state responsibility for safer and healthier working practices in British mining and the responses of labour and industry to expanding regulation and control. It begins with an assessment of working practice in the coal and metalliferous mining industries at the dawn of the nineteenth century and the hazards involved for the miners, before charting the rise of reforming interest in these industries. The 1850 Act for the Inspection of Coal Mines in Great Britain brought tighter legislation in coal mining, yet the metalliferous miners continued to work without government-regulated safety and health controls until the early 1870s. The author explores the reasons for this, taking into account socio-economic, environmental, medical, technical, and cultural factors that determined the chronology and nature of early reform. The comparative approach between the coal and metalliferous mining sectors provides a useful model for exploring the significance of organized labour in gaining health and safety concessions, particularly as the miners in the metalliferous sector, in contrast to the colliers who unionised early, placed a high value on independence and self-sufficiency in the workplace. As an investigation into the formation of health and safety legislation in a major industry, this work will be valuable to all those with an interest in medical history, occupational health, legal history, and the social history of work in the nineteenth century.
Dr Catherine Mills, Lecturer in Modern British History, Department of History, Stirling University, UK.
