"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...

Dangerously Sleepy explores the fraught relations between overwork, sleep deprivation, and public health. Health and labor historian Alan Derickson charts the cultural and political forces behind the overvaluation--and masculinization--of wakefulness in the United States.

Die Silikose wird durch die Inhalation feiner Staubpartikel bei der Arbeit unter Tage verursacht. Die betroffenen Bergleute leiden unter erheblichen körperlichen Einschränkungen und in vielen Fällen führt die Krankheit zum Tod durch Ersticken. Christian Schürmann befasst sich mit der...