The rise and fall of the healthy factory: the politics of industrial health in Britain, 1914-60

The first account of the emergence and demise of preventive health care for workers. It explores how trade unions, employers, doctors and the government reconfigured the relationship between health, productivity and the factory over the course of the twentieth century within a broader political, industrial andsocial context. VICKY LONG Lecturer in British History at Northumbria University, UK. INDICE: Introduction - War and Industrial Health: the Productive Alliance - The Rise of the Healthy Factory - Taking Responsibility: the Politics of Industrial Health - Tailoring Provisions for Individualised Needs - A National Industrial Health Service? - The Fall of the Healthy Factory - Conclusion -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-28371-8
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 304
• Fecha Publicación: 08/12/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido