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Author:   Jock McCulloch ,  Pavla Miller
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
Weight:   0.617kg
ISBN:  

9789811983290

ISBN 10:   9811983291
Pages:   459
Publication Date:   21 March 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: A most modern industry: the migrant labour system and crisis management: 1880 -2022 Chapter 3: Mapping and resolving a health crisis: 1902 -1929 Chapter 4: Identifying risk and compensating tuberculosis: 1916 - 1957 Chapter 5: Lifting the ban on the recruitment of Tropical labour: 1933-1945 Chapter 6: The research community, risk and evidence: 1912 - 1932 Chapter 7: Tuberculosis, malnutrition and mining in South Africa: 1903 - 1960 Chapter 8: Tuberculosis and migrant labour in the High Commission Territories:       Bechuanaland: 1985-1998 Chapter 9: Tuberculosis and migrant labour in the High Commission Territories: Basutoland and Swaziland: 1912-2005 Chapter 10: Contests over labour in British central African colonies: 1935 - 1953 Chapter 11: Dissenting voices: 1902 -1956 Chapter 12: The career of A. J. Orenstein: 1914 - -1960 Chapter 13: Technologies, care and repatriations: 1926-1966 Chapter 14: Things fall apart: independent research, asbestos litigation, and the gold miners’ class action: 1983 - 2019 Chapter 15: Conclusion: records, bodies and contested justice 

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Jock McCulloch (1945 - 2018) was one of the foremost historians of occupational health of his generation. He also wrote on colonization, race relations, and psychiatry. Jock was Emeritus Professor of History at RMIT University (Australia), and fellow of both the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences and the Academy of the Humanities.  Pavla Miller is Emeritus Professor of Historical Sociology at RMIT University (Australia). She wrote Long Division: State Schooling in South Australian Society; Transformations of Patriarchy in the West; and Patriarchy. An interdisciplinary scholar, she also published on explanations of low fertility, masters and servants’ legislation, children’s work, and the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme.

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