Hazards of the job from industrial disease to environmental health science /
"Hazards of the Job explores the roots of modern environmentalism in the early-twentieth-century United States. It was in the workplace of this era, argues Christopher Sellers, that our contemporary understanding of environmental health dangers first took shape." "Sellers traces the c...
| Main Author: | Sellers, Christopher C. |
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| Other Authors: | EBSCOhost. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[1997]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xv, 331 pages) : illustrations. |
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| Summary: |
"Hazards of the Job explores the roots of modern environmentalism in the early-twentieth-century United States. It was in the workplace of this era, argues Christopher Sellers, that our contemporary understanding of environmental health dangers first took shape." "Sellers traces the creation of a viable industrial hygiene expertise, focused initially on lead and other poisonings among workers, alongside the controversies that it addressed and roused."--Jacket. |
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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-315) and index. Prologue: A Source for Silent Spring -- White City's Ghosts -- Progressive Allure of the Worker's Ills -- A Public and Constructive Knowledge -- A Faltering Dream of Expertise -- Pax Toxicologica -- Environmental Turn -- Conclusion: Ordering Toxicity from the Workplace to the Environment. "Hazards of the Job explores the roots of modern environmentalism in the early-twentieth-century United States. It was in the workplace of this era, argues Christopher Sellers, that our contemporary understanding of environmental health dangers first took shape." "Sellers traces the creation of a viable industrial hygiene expertise, focused initially on lead and other poisonings among workers, alongside the controversies that it addressed and roused."--Jacket. English. Colorado Mountain College - E-book Collection / Ebsco Academic. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xv, 331 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-315) and index. |
| ISBN: |
0585027293 9780585027296 0807864455 9780807864456 |