The Rise and Fall of the Healthy Factory

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.

'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

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

Inhalt
Introduction War and Industrial Health: the Productive Alliance The Rise of the Healthy Factory Taking Responsibility: the Politics of Industrial Health Tailoring Provisions for Individualised Needs A National Industrial Health Service? The Fall of the Healthy Factory Conclusion