wyszukanych pozycji: 11
Jobs and Bodies: An Oral History of Health and Safety in Britain
ISBN: 9781350236226 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In the early 21st century, radically changing work locations and patterns have jolted society to reflect more on the ways that employment affects the body and the mind. This book provides historical context and insights to aid our understanding of this contemporary crisis, critically examining the history of a neglected area. In this oral-history based study, Arthur McIvor explores the history of health and safety from Second World War to the present, drawing extensively upon workers' own personal stories of occupational accidents, disasters, injury, disease, overwork and disability. It...
In the early 21st century, radically changing work locations and patterns have jolted society to reflect more on the ways that employment affects the ...
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394,26 zł |
Jobs and Bodies: An Oral History of Health and Safety in Britain
ISBN: 9781350236219 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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129,31 zł |
A History of Work in Britain, 1880-1950
ISBN: 9780333596173 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book draws upon the existing body of literature and incorporates substantial new research to provide an interpretative overview of the social history of work in Britain from the late-Victorian period to 1950. Different theoretical frameworks are analysed and the historiography reviewed. McIvor explores the changing nature of work over 1880-1950, focusing upon the occupational profile, work conditions, the labour process, inequalities and discrimination in employment and work culture. Industrial relations and the politics of work are evaluated, and the final section probes the interaction...
This book draws upon the existing body of literature and incorporates substantial new research to provide an interpretative overview of the social his...
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178,68 zł |
Working Lives : Work in Britain Since 1945
ISBN: 9781403987662 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A balanced and richly informed survey that investigates how, why and to what degree working lives have been transformed over the last sixty years. McIvor covers themes such as gender, race, class, disability and health in his exploration of how the meaning of employment has been signified by the workers themselves.
A balanced and richly informed survey that investigates how, why and to what degree working lives have been transformed over the last sixty years. McI...
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473,12 zł |
Memory, Mining and Heritage: Voices from Ayrshire Communities
ISBN: 9781911043201 / Miękka / 2024 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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93,14 zł |
Working Lives: Work in Britain Since 1945
ISBN: 9781403987679 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A balanced and richly informed survey that investigates how, why and to what degree working lives have been transformed over the last sixty years. McIvor covers themes such as gender, race, class, disability and health in his exploration of how the meaning of employment has been signified by the workers themselves.
A balanced and richly informed survey that investigates how, why and to what degree working lives have been transformed over the last sixty years. McI...
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173,42 zł |
Miners' Lung: A History of Dust Disease in British Coal Mining
ISBN: 9780754636731 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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...
Arthur McIvor and Ronald Johnston explore the experience of coal miners' lung diseases and the attempts at voluntary and legal control of dusty condit...
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762,24 zł |
Organised Capital: Employers' Associations and Industrial Relations in Northern England, 1880-1939
ISBN: 9780521890922 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This detailed new study--the first academic monograph on the history of British employers' organizations--develops a much-neglected theme in social history. Using previously untapped primary sources, Organised Capital explores these institutions from a regional, comparative perspective, analyzing their growth and activities during their heyday, and challenging current interpretations of employers' groups. Arthur McIvor's study will be of interest both to historians and to students of industrial relations.
This detailed new study--the first academic monograph on the history of British employers' organizations--develops a much-neglected theme in social hi...
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220,89 zł |
Miners' Lung: A History of Dust Disease in British Coal Mining
ISBN: 9781138273740 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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...
Arthur McIvor and Ronald Johnston explore the experience of coal miners' lung diseases and the attempts at voluntary and legal control of dusty condit...
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262,78 zł |
Organised Capital: Employers' Associations and Industrial Relations in Northern England, 1880–1939
ISBN: 9780521550949 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This detailed new study--the first academic monograph on the history of British employers' organizations--develops a much-neglected theme in social history. Using previously untapped primary sources, Organised Capital explores these institutions from a regional, comparative perspective, analyzing their growth and activities during their heyday, and challenging current interpretations of employers' groups. Arthur McIvor's study will be of interest both to historians and to students of industrial relations.
This detailed new study--the first academic monograph on the history of British employers' organizations--develops a much-neglected theme in social hi...
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454,51 zł |
Men in Reserve: British Civilian Masculinites in the Second World War
ISBN: 9781526100696 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Men in reserve focuses on working class civilian men who, as a result of working in reserved occupations, were exempt from enlistment in the armed forces. It uses fifty six newly conducted oral history interviews as well as autobiographies, visual sources and existing archived interviews to explore how this group articulated their wartime experiences and how they positioned themselves in relation to the hegemonic discourse of military masculinity. It considers the range of masculine identities circulating amongst civilian male workers during the war and investigates the extent to...
Men in reserve focuses on working class civilian men who, as a result of working in reserved occupations, were exempt from enlistment in the ...
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470,35 zł |