Coal-Mining Safety in the Progressive Period: The Political Economy of Reform

By William Graebner

Book Overview

Through the first decade of the twentieth century, Americans looked upon industrial accidents with callous disregard; they were accepted as an unfortunate but necessary adjunct to industrial society.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813113393
• ISBN13: 9780813113395
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 244 Pages