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Occupational Disease and Career Trajectory in Hard Coal, 1870–1930
Author(s) -
DERICKSON ALAN
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-232x.1993.tb01020.x
Subject(s) - anthracite , legislature , work (physics) , coal mining , late 19th century , coal , period (music) , political science , demographic economics , labour economics , economics , law , history , engineering , archaeology , art , mechanical engineering , aesthetics
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, workers in the anthracite industry commonly followed career paths that led to respiratory impairment. In turn, work‐induced pulmonary difficulties explain much of the downward mobility of older miners in this period. Managerial practice both accommodated and exacerbated disability. The United Mine Workers of America dealt with this problem primarily through agitation for legislative reform.