Regulating health and safety in the British mining industries, 1800-1914 / Catherine Mills.
2010
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Title
Regulating health and safety in the British mining industries, 1800-1914 / Catherine Mills.
Published
Farnham, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, [2010]
Copyright
©2010
Call Number
KD3172.M5 M55 2010
ISBN
9780754660873 (hardbound)
0754660877 (hardbound)
0754660877 (hardbound)
Description
xxv, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)323161081
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-273) and index.
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Purchased from the income of the Murray Fund
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Murray Fund
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Timeline of Major Accidents, Government Inquiries, Bills and Acts of Parliament
Glossary of Mining Terms
Introduction
1
1.
Industrialization and the Frequency and Nature of Risk
11
2.
The Rise of a Reforming Interest and the Mines and Collieries Act of 1842
39
3.
Organized Labour and the Home Office
69
4.
Intervention in Coal Mining, 1850-1887
99
5.
The Kinnaird Commission and the Regulation of Metalliferous Mining
127
6.
The Metalliferous Mines Regulation Act of 1872
151
7.
Scientific, Technological and Medical Advances
183
8.
Hazards and Heroics
213
Conclusion
243
Bibliography
251
Index
275