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The first modern risk : workplace accidents and the origins of European social states / Julia Moses.
Lippincott Library HD7262.5.E85 M67 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moses, Julia, 1979- author.
- Series:
- Studies in legal history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Risk-taking (Psychology).
- History.
- Welfare state.
- Workers' compensation.
- Industrial accidents.
- Europe.
- Industrial accidents--Europe--History--19th century.
- Workers' compensation--Europe--History--19th century.
- Welfare state--Europe--History--19th century.
- Risk-taking (Psychology)--Europe--History--19th century.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 319 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- "In August 2008, the British government released its first 'National Risk Register', which contained an 'assessment of the risks of civil emergencies facing people in the UK'. The Register has been updated every two years since 'to ensure that changes to the assessment of risks in terms of impact, plausibility and likelihood are correctly captured'. By 2015, the most significant risks facing Britons were identified as pandemic flu and issues associated with weather, from coastal flooding to heatwaves and gales, alongside 'catastrophic terrorist attacks' and 'widespread electricity failure'. 'Major industrial accidents' ranked just behind. Regardless of where each of these risks fell on the scale, it was clear that the state would be called upon to plan for and clean up after each of them. Accordingly, a separate document on 'Central Government's Concept of Operations' outlined how, in theory, the state, with government as its agent, would act as risk manager"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Accidents, freedom and modernity in the nineteenth century
- Occupational risk, work and the nation state
- Spreading risk, forging solidarity
- Taking risks and dismissing fate
- Workers, citizens and the state
- Risk societies as 'people's communities'.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-310) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781108426503
- 1108426506
- OCLC:
- 1040083231
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