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Death rode the rails : American railroad accidents and safety, 1828-1965 /
"For most of the nineteenth and much of the twentieth centuries, railroads dominated American transportation. They transformed life and they captured the imagination. Yet by 1907 railroads had also become the largest cause of violent death in the country, claiming that year the lives of nearly...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Md. :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- In the beginning: American railroad dangers and safety, 1828-1873
- Off the tracks: the changing pattern of derailments, 1873-1900
- Collisions and the rise of regulation, 1873-1900
- Major risks from minor accidents, 1873-1900
- Engineering success and disaster: bridge design and failure, 1840-1900
- Coping with casualties: companies, workers, and injuries, 1850-1900
- Safety crisis and safety first, 1900-1920
- Lobbying for regulation: transporting hazardous substances, 1903-1930
- Private enterprise and public regulation: safety between the wars, 1922-1939
- Safety in war and decline, 1940-1965
- Conclusion: the political economy of railroad safety, 1830-1965
- Appendix 1: nineteenth-century railroad accident and casualty statistics
- Appendix 2: Casulties and accidents from Interstate Commerce Commission statistics, 1888-1965.