Social History of Occupational Health

Paul Weindling is Professor emeritus at Oxford Brookes University, UK. His research interests include the history of eugenics and social welfare, victims of Nazi coerced research and medical experiments, and the history of international health.

• Preface Foreword Michael Meacehr MP. Chief Opposition Spokesman on Health and Social Security Part One: Introductory 1. Linking Self Help and Medical Science: The Social History of Occupational Health 2. The Social History of Occupational Medicine and Factory Health Services in the Federal Republic of Germany Part Two: Social Conditions and Risk Factors 3. From Workmen’s Diseases to Occupational Diseases: the Impact of Experts’ Concepts on Workers’ Attitudes 4. Disease, Labour Migration and Technological Change: The Case of the Cornish Miners 5. T.N.T. Poisoning and the Employment of Women Workers in the First World War 6. Tuberculosis, Silicosis and the State Industry in North Wales, 1927–1939 7. A Patient in Need of Care: German Occupational Health Statistics 8. Coronary Heart Disease: A Disease of Affluence or a Disease of Industry? Part Three: Compensation 9. The Rise and Decline of Workmen’s Compensation 10. What is an Accident? Part Four: Preventive Policies 11. Workers’ Insurance versus Protection of the Workers: State Social Policy in Imperial Germany 12. An Inspector Calls: Health and Safety at Work in Inter-war Britain 13. ‘The Golden Factory’. Industrial Health and Scientific Management in an Italian Light Engineering Firm. Magnetti Marelli in the Fascist Period

Review of the first publication:‘The editor of this collection of essays ought to be highly commended on his illumination of a grossly neglected, under-researched, indeed, marginalised area of social history—the interconnections between work and health. This book is most welcome…’— Arthur J. McIvor, Scottish Economic and Social History