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100 1 _aOliver, Thomas, Sir,
_d1853-1942
245 1 0 _aDangerous trades
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-05-06
508 _adeaurider, Karin Spence and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"Dangerous trades" by Sir Thomas Oliver is a scientific publication written in the early 20th century. It assembles expert studies on the historical, social, medical, and legal dimensions of hazardous occupations, focusing on industrial hygiene, occupational disease, and regulatory measures to protect workers. Aimed at doctors, inspectors, legislators, employers, and informed readers, it maps risks and reforms across a wide range of industries. The opening of this volume sets out its purpose in a plain-language preface: to give an authoritative, accessible account of how trades endanger health and to compile unrecorded evidence from many specialists for practical use, with acknowledgments to officials who enabled the editor’s inquiries. The Introduction then surveys industrial evolution, growing public concern, and the tools of policy, explaining the new public inquiry process for Special Rules under the Factory Act, debating working hours and productivity, and reviewing the Workmen’s Compensation Act while questioning whether occupational diseases should be included. It defines industrial disease and highlights the legal and diagnostic difficulties through examples such as lead poisoning, phosphorus necrosis, dust-induced lung disease, and anthrax, using accident figures to press for prevention via notification, expert consultation, stronger technical training, and even a dedicated labour ministry. The next chapter begins a historical sketch, contrasting earlier acceptance of workers’ suffering with later public-health leadership, and tracing how protection for dangerous industries took shape through the intertwined development of the Mines and Factory Acts. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: John Murray, 1902
653 _aHazardous occupations
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78617
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