The Industrial Worker in Pennsylvania, 1800-1840.

Romantische Naturphilosophie und Arzneimittellehre 1800–1840

Browne's history challenges us to come up with underlying social explanations. Why the contemporary mania for naming and "stationing" new species? so common an activity seems to defy questioning. William Kirby once said that naming was possessing, but it is surely too simplistic to see the enterprise as capitalist expropriation writ large (even knowing Wallace's need to tag and price each speci...

Health of the Industrial Worker

Psychology and the Industrial Worker

This is a more important book than its small size and unPretentious appearance would suggest. Its author, assistant director ?f research in Industrial Psychology at Cambridge, has provided a sUrvey of the principles underlying the application of psychology to industry, and has distilled from a vast volume of experimental Xvork an account of the most important achievements. It is thus a most use...

Assessing the health of the industrial worker.

In assessing the influence of an occupation on health, the main criterion must be disease, for it is measurable whereas " health " so far defies reliable measurement. The association between disease and occupation is easily observed when the clinical picture is clear as in lead poisoning or silicosis; but sometimes it is so obscure that it is only recognized by a man with a sharp and experience...

Mental Health of the Industrial Worker

This book is a study of car workers. It sets out indices of mental health, which can be assessed by a questionnaire and interview, and traces their relation to occupational levels, job satisfactions, characteristics ?f the job, personal characteristics and various aspects ?f the worker's orientation. There are, of course, already many opinions on this, based on impressions a.nd inferences; the ...