When the Air Became Important

A Social History of the New England and Lancashire Textile Industries

Janet Greenlees (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2019
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-8796-7 (ISBN)

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Examines the working environments of the heartlands of the British and American cotton textile industries from the nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. Janet Greenlees contends that the air quality within these pioneering workplaces was a key contributor to the health of the wider communities of which they were a part.

In When the Air Became Important, medical historian Janet Greenlees examines the working environments of the heartlands of the British and American cotton textile industries from the nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. Greenlees contends that the air quality within these pioneering workplaces was a key contributor to the health of the wider communities of which they were a part. Such enclosed environments, where large numbers of people labored in close quarters, were ideal settings for the rapid spread of diseases including tuberculosis, bronchitis and pneumonia. When workers left the factories for home, these diseases were transmitted throughout the local population, yet operatives also brought diseases into the factory. Other aerial hazards common to both the community and workplace included poor ventilation and noise. Emphasizing the importance of the peculiarities of place as well as employers’ balance of workers’ health against manufacturing needs, Greenlees’s pioneering book sheds light on the roots of contemporary environmentalism and occupational health reform. Her work highlights the complicated relationships among local business, local and national politics of health, and community priorities.

JANET GREENLEES is an associate professor of history at Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland. She is the author or editor of several books, including Female Labour Power: Women Workers’ Influence on Business Practices in the British and American Cotton Industries, 1780-1860.

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

List of Abbreviations

1          Introduction – When does the air in the workplace become important?

2          Textile town and mill environments

3          Tuberculosis in the factory

4          “I used to feel ill with it:” Heat, humidity and fatigue

5          Dust: A New Socio-Environmental Relationship

6          “The noise were horrendous:” The ignored industrial hazard

7          Conclusion: When does the air become important?

Acknowledgements

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	14.01.2019
Zusatzinfo	7 b-w halftones
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	513 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Arbeits- / Sozial- / Umweltmedizin
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Personalwesen
ISBN-10	0-8135-8796-4 / 0813587964
ISBN-13	978-0-8135-8796-7 / 9780813587967
Zustand	Neuware