Bøger af Arthur McIvor

Men in reserve provides the first nationwide study of the reserved occupations, bringing together a wide range of sources including new oral histories, autobiographies, archive, visual and film materials. -- .

A balanced and richly informed survey that investigates how, why and to what degree working lives have been transformed over the last sixty years. McIvor covers themes such as gender, race, class, disability and health in his exploration of how the meaning of employment has been signified by the workers themselves.

This book draws upon the existing body of literature and incorporates substantial new research to provide an interpretative overview of the social history of work in Britain from the late-Victorian period to 1950.

Explores the experience of coal miners' lung diseases and the attempts at voluntary and legal control of dusty conditions in British mining from the since nineteenth century. In this way, this book addresses the important issues of occupational health and safety within the mining industry notably pneumoconiosis, emphysema and bronchitis.