Dead Laws for Dead Men : The Politics of Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Legislation /

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The coal mining industry has claimed the lives of more than 100,000 miners since the turn of the century and has disabled hundreds of thousands more. This account of the struggle for coal mine health and safety legislation in the United States examines the series of laws that steadily expanded the r...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Curran, Daniel J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Veiligheidsmaatregelen.
Mijnwerkers.
Steenkoolindustrie.
Coal mines and mining > Safety regulations.
Charbon > Mines et extraction > Securite > Reglements > États-Unis > Histoire.
Coal mines and mining > Safety regulations > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Explaining Law and Law Creation
  • 2. Emergence of an Industry in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
  • 3. A Decade of Progressivism and the First Symbolic Act, 1900-1910
  • 4. Coal Mine Laws: Action Only Under the Right Conditions, 1910-1968
  • 5. The Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969
  • 6. A Changing Industry, Changing Standards
  • 7. Conclusion.

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