Safety First: Technology, Labor, and Business in the Building of American Work Safety, 1870-1939

by Mark Aldrich

The first full account of why the American workplace became so dangerous, and why it is now so much safer.

In 1907, American coal mines killed 3,242 men in occupational accidents, probably an all-time high both for the industry and for all laboring accidents in this country. In December alone, two mines at Monongah, West Virginia, blew up, killing 362 men. Railroad accidents that same year killed another 4,534. At a single South Chicago...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801854059
• ISBN13: 9780801854057
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.3" x 10.3"