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A History of Dust Disease in British Coal Mining

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Miners' Lung book

A History of Dust Disease in British Coal Mining
ByArthur McIvor, Ronald Johnston
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2007
eBook Published 2 May 2016
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315595504
Pages 374
eBook ISBN 9781315595504
Subjects Health and Social Care, Humanities, Law
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McIvor, A., & Johnston, R. (2007). Miners' Lung: A History of Dust Disease in British Coal Mining (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315595504

ABSTRACT

Arthur McIvor and Ronald Johnston explore the experience of coal miners' lung diseases and the attempts at voluntary and legal control of dusty conditions in British mining from the late nineteenth century to the present. In this way, the book addresses the important issues of occupational health and safety within the mining industry; issues that have been severely neglected in studies of health and safety in general. The authors examine the prevalent diseases, notably pneumoconiosis, emphysema and bronchitis, and evaluate the roles of key players such as the doctors, management and employers, the state and the trade unions. Throughout the book, the integration of oral testimony helps to elucidate the attitudes of workers and victims of disease, their 'machismo' work culture and socialisation to very high levels of risk on the job, as well as how and why ideas and health mentalities changed over time. This research, taken together with extensive archive material, provides a unique perspective on the nature of work, industrial relations, the meaning of masculinity in the workplace and the wider social impact of industrial disease, disability and death. The effects of contracting dust disease are shown to result invariably in seriously prescribed lifestyles and encroaching isolation. The book will appeal to those working on the history of medicine, industrial relations, social history and business history as well as labour history.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

PART I: INTERPRETATIONS AND CONTEXT

chapter 1|20 pages

Methodology and Historiography

chapter 2|34 pages

Work and the Body in Coal Mining

part |2 pages

PART II: ADVANCING MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE ON DUST DISEASE

chapter 3|28 pages

Coal Workers’ Pneumoconiosis: Discovery and Denial

chapter 4|32 pages

Social Medicine and Pioneering Epidemiology

chapter 5|20 pages

The Last Gasp: Bronchitis and Emphysema

part |2 pages

PART III: THE INDUSTRIAL POLITICS OF MINERS’ LUNG

chapter 6|40 pages

‘Enlightened Management’? The NCB, the State and Dust

chapter 7|50 pages

The Trade Unions and Dust

part |2 pages

PART IV: MINERS’ TESTIMONIES: DUST AND DISABILITY NARRATIVES

chapter 8|36 pages

Workplace Culture: Risk, Health and Masculinity

chapter 9|36 pages

Breathless Men: Living and Dying with Dust Disease

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