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 and social context.
Table of Content
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
About the author
Vicky Long is Senior Lecturer in the History of Health and Healthcare at Glasgow Caledonian University.
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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 290 ● ISBN 9780230303836 ● File size 2.5 MB ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan UK ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2010 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 4968953 ● Copy protection Social DRM