“Buying brains and experts”: British coal owners, regulatory capture and miners’ health, 1918 – 1946
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Mortality of British coal miners in 1961.
Liddell, F. D. K. (1973). Brit. J. industr. Med., 30, 15-24. Mortality of British coal miners in 1961. In an earlier enquiry, a sizeable proportion of deaths officially ascribed to coalmining occupations was shown to have been in men who had worked in the industry but not in jobs specific to coalmining, or who had left the mines and taken up other employment. This led to overstatement of mortal...
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عنوان ژورنال: Labor History
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0023-656X,1469-9702
DOI: 10.1080/0023656x.2016.1086555