The Rise and Fall of the Healthy Factory: The Politics of Industrial Health in Britain, 1914-60

Long, V.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2010-12-08

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230283718

DOI: 10.1057/9780230303836

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 290