Regulating Health and Safety in the British Mining Industries, 1800 1914

by Catherine Mills

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138274208
• ISBN13: 9781138274204
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"