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We offer ourselves as evidence : toward workers' control of occupational health
- Title
- We offer ourselves as evidence : toward workers' control of occupational health / Bennett M. Judkins.
- Author
- Judkins, Bennett M.
- Publication
- New York : Greenwood Press, 1986.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | RC773 .J83 1986 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 249 pages; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Study of the social movement for occupational health led by retired workers suffering from occupational disease in the USA - describes how coal miners suffering from pneumoconiosis and textile workers afflicted with byssinosis caused by cotton dust, sought to alter government attitudes and management attitudes to recognise that these conditions should give eligibility for disability benefit, and require occupational safety measures. Bibliography.
- Series Statement
- Contributions in labor studies, 0886-8239 ; no. 19
- Uniform Title
- Contributions in labor studies ; no. 19.
- Subject
- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
- Lungs > Dust diseases > Social aspects > United States
- Byssinosis > Social aspects > United States
- Cotton dust > Health aspects > United States
- Coal mines and mining > Health aspects > United States
- Coal mines and mining
- Cotton
- Workers' compensation
- Byssinosis > etiology
- Coal Mining
- Cotton Fiber
- Gossypium > adverse effects
- Pneumoconiosis > etiology
- Workers' Compensation
- coal mines
- cotton (fiber)
- Workers' compensation
- Cotton
- Coal mines and mining
- Byssinosis > Social aspects
- Coal mines and mining > Health aspects
- Cotton dust > Health aspects
- Lungs > Dust diseases > Social aspects
- Arbeiterbewegung
- Berufskrankheit
- Staublunge
- social movement
- occupational health
- retired workers
- occupational disease
- coal miner
- pneumoconiosis
- textile worker
- cotton
- dust
- government attitude
- management attitude
- eligibility
- disability benefit
- occupational safety
- Industrial hygiene > United States
- mouvement social
- santé au travail
- travailleur retraité
- maladie professionnelle
- mineur de houille
- pneumoconiose
- travailleur du textile
- coton
- poussière
- attitude du gouvernement
- attitude patronale
- conditions d'ouverture des droits
- prestations d'invalidité
- sécurité du travail
- movimiento social
- salud en el trabajo
- jubilado
- enfermedad profesional
- minero del carbón
- neumoconiosis
- obrero textil
- algodón
- polvo
- actitud gubernamental
- actitud de la dirección
- elegibilidad
- prestaciones de invalidez
- seguridad en el trabajo
- United States
- USA
- USA
- Etats-Unis
- Estados Unidos
- Genre/Form
- bibliography.
- bibliographie.
- bibliografía.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [237]-241.
- ISBN
- 0313248982
- 9780313248986
- LCCN
- 85024775
- OCLC
- ocm12665445
- 12665445
- SCSB-642771
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library