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Workplace disasters have wreaked havoc on countless American workers and their families. They have resulted in widespread death and disability as well as the loss of property and savings. These tragic events have also inspired safety reforms that reshaped labor conditions in ways that partially comp...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Workplace disasters have wreaked havoc on countless American workers and their families. They have resulted in widespread death and disability as well as the loss of property and savings. These tragic events have also inspired safety reforms that reshaped labor conditions in ways that partially compensated for death, suffering, and social dislocation. In Havoc and Reform, James P. Kraft encourages readers to think about such disastrous events in new ways. Placing the problem of workplace safety in historical context, Kraft focuses on five catastrophes that shocked the nation in the half century after World War II, a time when service-oriented industries became the nation's leading engines of job growth. Looking to growing areas of economic life in the Western Sunbelt, Kraft touches on the 1947 explosion of the Texas City Monsanto Chemical Company plant, the 1956 airliner collision over the Grand Canyon, the hospital collapses following the 1971 San Fernando earthquake, the 1980 fire at the Las Vegas MGM Grand, and the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building. These incidents destroyed places of employment that seemed safe and affected a relatively wide range of working people, including highly trained, salaried professionals and blue- and white-collar groups. And each took a toll on the general public, increasing fears that anyone could be in danger of being killed or injured and putting pressure on public officials to prevent similar tragedies in the future. As Kraft considers how these tragedies transformed individual lives and specific work environments, he describes how employees, employers, and public leaders reacted to each event. Presented chronologically, his studies offer a unique and sobering outlook on the rise of a now vital and integral part of the national economy. They also underscore the ubiquity and persistence of workplace disasters in American history while building on and challenging literature about the impact of World War II in the American West. Within a broader frame, they speak to the double-edged nature of modern life. |
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| spelling | Kraft, James P., author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjHcgC8XDQWHBkB3Pf8RGb http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96068702 Havoc and reform : workplace disasters in modern America / James P. Kraft. Workplace disasters in modern America Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. ©2021 1 online resource (xii, 256 pages) : illustrations. text txt rdacontent still image sti rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier nat Americans lcdgt Twentieth century lcsh Hagley library studies in business, technology, and politics Includes bibliographical references and index. Disasters at work : A brief background -- Chemical plant explodes in Texas city! -- Airliners collide over the Grand Canyon! -- Hospitals collapse in Southern California! -- MGM Grand burns in Las Vegas! -- Federal Building bombed in Oklahoma City! Workplace disasters have wreaked havoc on countless American workers and their families. They have resulted in widespread death and disability as well as the loss of property and savings. These tragic events have also inspired safety reforms that reshaped labor conditions in ways that partially compensated for death, suffering, and social dislocation. In Havoc and Reform, James P. Kraft encourages readers to think about such disastrous events in new ways. Placing the problem of workplace safety in historical context, Kraft focuses on five catastrophes that shocked the nation in the half century after World War II, a time when service-oriented industries became the nation's leading engines of job growth. Looking to growing areas of economic life in the Western Sunbelt, Kraft touches on the 1947 explosion of the Texas City Monsanto Chemical Company plant, the 1956 airliner collision over the Grand Canyon, the hospital collapses following the 1971 San Fernando earthquake, the 1980 fire at the Las Vegas MGM Grand, and the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building. These incidents destroyed places of employment that seemed safe and affected a relatively wide range of working people, including highly trained, salaried professionals and blue- and white-collar groups. And each took a toll on the general public, increasing fears that anyone could be in danger of being killed or injured and putting pressure on public officials to prevent similar tragedies in the future. As Kraft considers how these tragedies transformed individual lives and specific work environments, he describes how employees, employers, and public leaders reacted to each event. Presented chronologically, his studies offer a unique and sobering outlook on the rise of a now vital and integral part of the national economy. They also underscore the ubiquity and persistence of workplace disasters in American history while building on and challenging literature about the impact of World War II in the American West. Within a broader frame, they speak to the double-edged nature of modern life. James P. Kraft is a professor of US business, labor, and the American West at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. He is the author of Stage to Studio: Musicians and the Sound Revolution, 1890-1950 and Vegas at Odds: Labor Conflict in a Leisure Economy, 1960-1985. Print version record. Industries West (U.S.) History 20th century. Disasters West (U.S.) History 20th century. Work environment West (U.S.) History 20th century. Work environment fast Industries fast Disasters fast West United States fast 1900-1999 fast Electronic books. History fast has work: Havoc and reform (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCFtmHp9kpWtcXD4C68mFBq https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: Kraft, James P. Havoc and reform. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021 9781421440576 (DLC) 2020026094 (OCoLC)1158507346 Hagley library studies in business, technology, and politics. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2018048192 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2623226 Volltext CBO01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2623226 Volltext |
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