Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on July 14, 2008
Enterprise and Society 2008 9(3):543-545; doi:10.1093/es/khn069
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Arthur McIvor and Ronald Johnston. Miners Lung: A History of Dust Disease in British Coal Mining
Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2007. xviii + 355 pp. ISBN 13:978-0-7546-3673-1, $99.95 (cloth)
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Over the course of the past two decades, historians have begun to pay serious and sustained attention to the history of occupational health, much of it analyzing the role of social, economic, and political factors in the medical recognition of industrial disease. Although much has been published about the British coal industry, this is the first book to address the issue of health and safety in this critically important sector of the British economy. Miners Lung, building on the work done by Jo
John Jay College and the Graduate Center, CUNY