Dying for Work

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Dying for Work is written by David Rosner and published by Indiana University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0253318254 (ISBN 10) and 9780253318251 (ISBN 13).

This pathbreaking volume explores the history of occupational safety and health in America from the late nineteenth century to the 1950s. Thirteen essays tell a story of the exploitation of workers as measured by shortened lives, high disease rates, and painful injuries. Scholars from a variety of disciplines examine the history of protection and compensation for injured workers, state and federal involvement, controversies over the dangers of lead, and the three emblematic industrial diseases of this century -- radium poisoning, asbestos-related diseases, and brown lung.