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OverviewContemporary life in Britain is dominated by discussion of safety, risk and accidents. This monograph is the first to explore the history of modern safety culture in Britain and the evolution of ideas of accident prevention. It focuses on the railway industry between approximately 1871 (the date of the first specific state intervention in railway employee safety) and 1948 (the date at which the railways were nationalised). This period shows extremely important and far-reaching changes in how people dealt with safety and accident during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The railway industry was one of the first to introduce safety education into Britain. This study charts the shift from state legislative intervention and formal, punitive measures that required railway workers to be safe, to the introduction of an informal, accessible safety education campaign, which tried to persuade workers to act safely. Using visually attractive items - including posters, booklets, leaflets, and films - people were shown what to do and what not to do. How this happened, and the uses to which safety education and accident prevention have been put have not been examined. The book will draw upon and develop relevant insights from business history, labour history the history of occupational health and safety, and medical history. Readers will find particular value in the analysis of ways in which state, unions, managers and workers interacted to produce dominant understandings of safety. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mike Esbester (University of Portsmouth, UK)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Ashgate Publishing Limited ISBN: 9781409450078ISBN 10: 1409450074 Pages: 233 Publication Date: 01 January 2021 Audience: College/higher education , College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of Contents1. Understanding 'safety' 2. Legislating for safety 3. Regulating and inspecting for safety 4. Safety education: the new paradigm 5. Constructing and managing the safe worker 6. 'All bunkum': worker responses to education 7. 'The only means of preventing accidents': state responses to education 8. ConclusionReviewsAuthor InformationMike Esbester is AHRC Early Career Fellow at Oxford Brookes University, UK Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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