Coal-Mining Safety in the Progressive Period : The Political Economy of Reform /
Through the first decade of the twentieth century, Americans looked upon industrial accidents with callous disregard; they were accepted as an unfortunate but necessary adjunct to industrial society. A series of mine disasters in December 1907 (including one in Monongah, West Virginia, which took a...
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
1976.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Business, Bureaucracy, and National Reform; 2. Technology and Politics in the Federal Bureaucracy; 3. Legislation and Enforcement in the States; 4. The Miner and the Union; 5. The Operator as Victim; 6. Coal-Mining Safety and the Progressive Period; List of Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliographical Note; Bibliography of Primary Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.