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The Rise and Fall of the Healthy Factory

The Politics of Industrial Health in Britain, 1914-60

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Introduction

    • Vicky Long
    Pages 1-15
  3. The Rise of the Healthy Factory

    • Vicky Long
    Pages 49-84
  4. A National Industrial Health Service?

    • Vicky Long
    Pages 156-186
  5. The Fall of the Healthy Factory

    • Vicky Long
    Pages 187-206
  6. Conclusion

    • Vicky Long
    Pages 207-221
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 222-290

About this book

The first account of the emergence and demise of preventive health care for workers. It explores how trade unions, employers, doctors and the government reconfigured the relationship between health, productivity and the factory over the course of the twentieth century within a broader political, industrial and social context.

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'Vicky Long's wide-ranging book makes a welcome contribution to the field by concentrating upon the twentieth-century factory, an area so far largely neglected. The book...offers new insights to historians of labour and industrial relations, business historians, and political historians concerned with the role of the state in twentieth-century society. That the book speaks to these diverse audiences is a mark of its success.' - Mike Esbester, Oxford Brookes University, Social History of Medicine

Authors and Affiliations

  • Northumbria University, UK

    Vicky Long

About the author

Vicky Long is Senior Lecturer in the History of Health and Healthcare at Glasgow Caledonian University.

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