A History of the Workplace: Environment and Health at Stake

ISBN-13: 9780367739829 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 160 str.

Lars Bluma; Judith Rainhorn

Opis

Interest in the history of the workplace is on the rise. This book focuses on the new approaches in this important and growing area and their possible range of influence.

This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Review of History.

Spis treści

1. History of the workplace: Environment and health at stake – An introduction Judith Rainhorn and Lars Bluma  2. The hygienic movement and German mining 1890 – 1914 Lars Bluma  3. The banning of white lead: French and American experiences in a comparative perspective (early twentieth century) Judith Rainhorn  4. Aluminium in health and food: a gradual global approach Florence Hachez-Leroy  5. Fiddling, drinking and stealing: moral code in the Soviet Estonian mining industry Eeva Kesküla  6. Hygienists, workers’ bodies and machines in nineteenth-century France Thomas Le Roux  7. The factory as environment: social engineering and the ecology of industrial workplaces in inter-war Germany Timo Luks  8. The ideal of Lebensraum and the spatial order of power at German factories, 1900 – 45 Karsten Uhl

O autorze

Lars Bluma is senior researcher at the German Mining Museum in Bochum, Germany. He is Adjunct Professor at the Historical Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.

Judith Rainhorn is Associate Professor at the Université of Lille-Nord de France, Valenciennes, France, member of Esopp, EHESS-Sciences Po, Paris, France, and an alumna of the Ecole normale supérieure.