Germs in the English workplace, c.1880-1945 / Laura Newman.

Erişim Adresi
Taylor & Francis Link
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ISBN
9780429769184 (epub)
0429769180
9780429429170 (ebk)
0429429177
9780429769191 (adobe pdf)
0429769199
9780429769177 (mobi)
0429769172
9781138368514 (hbk)
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yayın Bilgisi
London ; New York : Routledge, 2021.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource.
Dizi
Routledge studies in the history of science, technology and medicine ; volume 44
Özet, vb.
"This book looks at how the workplace was transformed through a greater awareness of the roles that germs played in English working lives from c.1880 to 1945. Cutting across a diverse array of occupational settings - such as the domestic kitchen, the milking shed, the factory, and the Post Office - it offers new perspectives on the history of the germ sciences. It brings to light the ways in which germ scientists sought to transform English working lives through new types of technical and educational interventions that sought to both eradicate and instrumentalize germs. It then asks how we can measure and judge the success of such interventions by tracing how workers responded to the potential applications of the germ sciences through their participation in friendly societies, trade unions, colleges, and volunteer organizations. Throughout the book, close attention is paid to reconstructing vernacular traditions of working with invisible life in order to better understand both the successes and failures of the germ sciences to transform the working practices and material conditions of different workplaces. The result is a more diverse history of the peoples, politics, and practices that went into shaping the germ sciences in late nineteenth and early twentieth century England"-- Provided by publisher.
Konu
Industrial hygiene __ England __ History.
Work environment __ England __ History.
Labor unions __ England __ History.
Fraternal organizations __ England __ History.
Germ theory of disease __ History.
HISTORY / General __ bisacsh
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain __ bisacsh
SCIENCE / History __ bisacsh
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