Joseph Melling
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3939362 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Joseph Melling |
| PRENOMES | Joseph |
| SOBRENOME | Melling |
| ASSINATURA | MELLING J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Exeter |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1976 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Jock McCulloch, South Africa's Gold Mines and the Politics of Silicosis
Jock McCulloch's new book makes a significant contribution to a vibrant literature which debates the scale of occupational illness in modern industry. His text offers an arresting analysis of industrial silicosis in the world's largest gold mines and the impact of pulmonary disease on the health of migrant workers within and beyond the borders of the industrial hub that is South Africa. The author previously completed studies of asbestos poisonin…
Towards a transnational industrial-hazard history
We argue that industrial hazards have remained an integral feature of the international and ‘global’ economy since the early modern period, and invite historians of science into the study of their history. The growth and dissemination of knowledge about these hazards, as well as the production and trade that generate them, continue to generate deep inequalities in just who is exposed to them, as illustrated by the shifting impact of the asbestos-…
Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt? Experts, Lay Knowledge, and the Role of Radiography in the Diagnosis of Silicosis in Britain, c. 1919–1945
The history of silicosis provides an important chapter in the history of occupational and environmental health. Recent historical scholarship has drawn attention to the importance of patient attitudes, popular protests, and compensation claims in the formation of a "lay epidemiology" of such a disease, frequently challenging the scientific orthodoxies devised by large corporations and medical specialists. Surprisingly little research has been und…
Defending the Indefensible
The white mineral which once offered a cornucopia of safety applications was transformed in the late twentieth century into a lethal miasma of dust which cast a sinister shadow over the health of millions of people. McCulloch and Tweedale's fluent and erudite survey of this public health disaster charts the germination and the flowering of a catastrophe that today claims 90,000 lives a year and may have killed five million before it is eradicated…
Miners' lung
How everyday products make people sick
Family matters? Psychiatry, kinship and domestic responses to insanity in nineteenth-century England
Family matters? Psychiatry, kinship and domestic responses to insanity in nineteenth-century England
The kiss of death or a flight of fancy? Workers' health and the campaign to regulate shuttle kissing in the British cotton industry, c . 1900–52 1
This article examines workers' health in the British cotton industry c.1900-1952
Psychological subjects
Leading the White-Collar Union
The growth of white-collar unionism and its impact on British trade unions in the postwar period has received little attention from social historians. Radical critics have noted the failure of Clive Jenkins to provide a clear lead in defending workers' conditions, while mainstream, institutionalist commentators more often stress the diversity of specific interests served by such unions. Recent research has called into question earlier models of u…
Managing the White-Collar Union
The policies pursued by British trade unions, and especially by the white-collar unions in the second half of the twentieth century, remain the subject of vigorous debate. Many writers have contrasted the egalitarian principles of these institutions and the radical rhetoric of their leaders with the narrow sectional interests which they served in practice. This article offers an alternative approach to such accounts in suggesting that rhetoric an…
Red under the Collar? Clive Jenkins, White Collar Unionism and the Politics of the British Left, 1947-65
Portraits of trade union leaders are invariably coloured by their political loyalties and those of contemporary commentators. Many scholars have suggested that British union leaders subscribed to a Labourist ideology which confined their role to economic rather than radical political objectives, and that the concerns of managing the union tended to moderate the radical inclinations of both officers and members. The professional and political care…
Public Gifts and Political Identities
Richard Acland's political career with the Common Wealth Party has formed an important reference point in debates on the character of popular politics during the 1940s, as well as a larger narrative of the influence of radicalism in British public life. Whilst Acland's subsequent career as a moral educationalist and peace campaigner has been largely ignored, his postwar fame depended heavily on his celebrated transfer of substantial landed estate…
The Body in Question
The road to the asylum
Chasing the Ambulance. The Emerging Crisis in the Preservation of Modern Health Records
In this brief essay we argue that the best efforts of archivists, scholars, and practitioners within the National Health Service have not prevented the wholesale destruction of the bulk of patient records created during the twentieth century. This is a matter of vital concern not merely for historians of modern medicine. Important clinical work has frequently been undertaken on materials which have survived, usually by chance or by the foresight …
Migration, family structure and pauper lunacy in Victorian England
The lunatic asylum remains one of the most remarkable institutional monuments of the modern world, dominating the social landscape of Victorian Britain and exercising a powerful attraction for social historians of medicine, an attraction almost as great as the spectre of the madhouse for contemporary novelists. Our image of the Victorian asylum is still pervaded to a surprising degree by the gloomy spectacle of the total institution presented by …
A Proper Lunatic for Two Years
Joseph Melling, Richard Adair, Bill Forsythe; “A Proper Lunatic for Two Years ”: Pauper Lunatic Children in Victorian and Edwardian England. Child Admissio
Institutions and Economic Growth
This article reviews Mancur Olson's ideas concerning the impact of institutions on growth rates and national competitive performance. We suggest that Olson's "ideal typical" methodology limits the usefulness of his approach and that institutional structures and strategies can be dependent variables. In comparing the performance of three European countries in the postwar period, we argue (contrary to strict Olsonian principles) that changing marke…
Trade Unionism in Recession
Actively Seeking Work? The Politics of Unemployment and Welfare Policy in the United States and Great Britain
The Missing Stratum
List of Tables Preface 1 An Edwardian Problem 2 A Solution: The Junior Technical School, 1905-1918 3 The Problems of the Junior Technical Schools, 1918-1939 4 The Junior Technical Schools and Industry, 1918-1939 5 The Junior Technical Schools and the Second World War, 1939-1945 6 Policy and the Technical School from Spens to the Butler Act 7 Change and Decay, 1945-1960s 8 Why This Matters Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Industrial Efficiency and State Intervention
Industrial Training and Technological Innovation
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access Gilles Vidon and Michel Goutal (eds.), L'Hebergement Therapeutique: Une Alternative A L'Hospitalisation Psychiatrique?, Toulouse: Érès, 1990. Pp. 284. 182F (pbk.). ISBN 2-86586-152-X. JOSEPH MELLING JOSEPH MELLING University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 5, Issue 3, December 1992, Pages 551-a–551, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/5.3…
Employer, Industrial Housing and the Evolution of Company Welfare Policies in Britain's Heavy Industry
The history of working-class housing has become an imporatnt area of urban studies in recent years, as detailed investigations of building activities and property relations uncover the origins of housing initiatives. The growth of cities in the industrial North of England created their own peculiar building styles and housing problems, whilst the great metropolis of London continued to attract thousands of families into its eternal slums. There w…
Whatever Happened to Red Clydeside
Recent studies of industrial conflict during the First World War have challenged earlier interpretations of working-class politics in Britain. The debate has focussed on the events in west Scotland during the years when the legend of “Red Clydeside” was made. It is now commonplace to emphasise the limited progress of revolutionary politics and the presence of a powerful craft sectionalism in the industrial workforce. This essay discusses the rece…
The road to the asylum
Welfare capitalism and the origins of welfare states
Non‐Commissioned Officers’
Over the past two decades historians and sociologists have shared a growing interest in the problems of working-class development, differentiation and consciousness. During the 1950S the relative absence of violent social protest and explicit class conflict led sociologists to investigate the claims for political deference, social incorporation and even classlessness.1 Social historians facing similar difficulties in explaining the 'quiescence' o…
Defending the Indefensible
The white mineral which once offered a cornucopia of safety applications was transformed in the late twentieth century into a lethal miasma of dust which cast a sinister shadow over the health of millions of people. McCulloch and Tweedale's fluent and erudite survey of this public health disaster charts the germination and the flowering of a catastrophe that today claims 90,000 lives a year and may have killed five million before it is eradicated…
Towards a transnational industrial-hazard history
We argue that industrial hazards have remained an integral feature of the international and ‘global’ economy since the early modern period, and invite historians of science into the study of their history. The growth and dissemination of knowledge about these hazards, as well as the production and trade that generate them, continue to generate deep inequalities in just who is exposed to them, as illustrated by the shifting impact of the asbestos-…
Leading the White-Collar Union
The growth of white-collar unionism and its impact on British trade unions in the postwar period has received little attention from social historians. Radical critics have noted the failure of Clive Jenkins to provide a clear lead in defending workers' conditions, while mainstream, institutionalist commentators more often stress the diversity of specific interests served by such unions. Recent research has called into question earlier models of u…
Institutions and Economic Growth
This article reviews Mancur Olson's ideas concerning the impact of institutions on growth rates and national competitive performance. We suggest that Olson's "ideal typical" methodology limits the usefulness of his approach and that institutional structures and strategies can be dependent variables. In comparing the performance of three European countries in the postwar period, we argue (contrary to strict Olsonian principles) that changing marke…
Rent Strikes
Reading Beveridge
The kiss of death or a flight of fancy? Workers' health and the campaign to regulate shuttle kissing in the British cotton industry, c . 1900–52 1
This article examines workers' health in the British cotton industry c.1900-1952
Managing the White-Collar Union
The policies pursued by British trade unions, and especially by the white-collar unions in the second half of the twentieth century, remain the subject of vigorous debate. Many writers have contrasted the egalitarian principles of these institutions and the radical rhetoric of their leaders with the narrow sectional interests which they served in practice. This article offers an alternative approach to such accounts in suggesting that rhetoric an…
Chasing the Ambulance. The Emerging Crisis in the Preservation of Modern Health Records
In this brief essay we argue that the best efforts of archivists, scholars, and practitioners within the National Health Service have not prevented the wholesale destruction of the bulk of patient records created during the twentieth century. This is a matter of vital concern not merely for historians of modern medicine. Important clinical work has frequently been undertaken on materials which have survived, usually by chance or by the foresight …
Migration, family structure and pauper lunacy in Victorian England
The lunatic asylum remains one of the most remarkable institutional monuments of the modern world, dominating the social landscape of Victorian Britain and exercising a powerful attraction for social historians of medicine, an attraction almost as great as the spectre of the madhouse for contemporary novelists. Our image of the Victorian asylum is still pervaded to a surprising degree by the gloomy spectacle of the total institution presented by …
Industrial Strife and Business Welfare Philosophy
The Open University Course on Public Administration
Industrial Strife and Business Welfare Philosophy
Non‐Commissioned Officers’
Over the past two decades historians and sociologists have shared a growing interest in the problems of working-class development, differentiation and consciousness. During the 1950S the relative absence of violent social protest and explicit class conflict led sociologists to investigate the claims for political deference, social incorporation and even classlessness.1 Social historians facing similar difficulties in explaining the 'quiescence' o…
Housing, Social Policy, and the State
Employer, Industrial Housing and the Evolution of Company Welfare Policies in Britain's Heavy Industry
The history of working-class housing has become an imporatnt area of urban studies in recent years, as detailed investigations of building activities and property relations uncover the origins of housing initiatives. The growth of cities in the industrial North of England created their own peculiar building styles and housing problems, whilst the great metropolis of London continued to attract thousands of families into its eternal slums. There w…
Segmented Work, Divided Workers
Rent Strikes
Industry, Labour and Politics, 1880–1940
(1989). Industry, Labour and Politics, 1880–1940. Business History: Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 114-119
Labour relations and industrial productivity
Britain and Sweden have often been cited to illustrate the contrasting fortunes of post-War European economies. Britain seemed destined to struggle with bad labour relations and comparatively poor levels of output, whilst Sweden established a reputation as a model of corporatist management and high productivity.1 The industrial turmoil of the 1970s swept Scandinavia as well as the U.K. and blurred this convenient contrast, but it was the dramatic…
Sport, spectacle and class
Whatever Happened to Red Clydeside
Recent studies of industrial conflict during the First World War have challenged earlier interpretations of working-class politics in Britain. The debate has focussed on the events in west Scotland during the years when the legend of “Red Clydeside” was made. It is now commonplace to emphasise the limited progress of revolutionary politics and the presence of a powerful craft sectionalism in the industrial workforce. This essay discusses the rece…
The Ideologies of Class
Industrial Capitalism and the Welfare of the State
Recent debates on the future of social benefits in the market economy have focussed attention on the origins of state services and the conditions which encouraged the growth of public welfare in modern society. The emphasis in the recent writing has been upon the political conditions for the evolution of citizenship rather than on economic and industrialisation models of welfare expenditure. At the same time there have been various attempts to ad…
Reading Beveridge
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access Gilles Vidon and Michel Goutal (eds.), L'Hebergement Therapeutique: Une Alternative A L'Hospitalisation Psychiatrique?, Toulouse: Érès, 1990. Pp. 284. 182F (pbk.). ISBN 2-86586-152-X. JOSEPH MELLING JOSEPH MELLING University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 5, Issue 3, December 1992, Pages 551-a–551, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/5.3…
Welfare capitalism and the origins of welfare states
Industrial Training and Technological Innovation
Industrial Efficiency and State Intervention
Actively Seeking Work? The Politics of Unemployment and Welfare Policy in the United States and Great Britain
The Missing Stratum
List of Tables Preface 1 An Edwardian Problem 2 A Solution: The Junior Technical School, 1905-1918 3 The Problems of the Junior Technical Schools, 1918-1939 4 The Junior Technical Schools and Industry, 1918-1939 5 The Junior Technical Schools and the Second World War, 1939-1945 6 Policy and the Technical School from Spens to the Butler Act 7 Change and Decay, 1945-1960s 8 Why This Matters Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Trade Unionism in Recession
Chasing the Ambulance. The Emerging Crisis in the Preservation of Modern Health Records
In this brief essay we argue that the best efforts of archivists, scholars, and practitioners within the National Health Service have not prevented the wholesale destruction of the bulk of patient records created during the twentieth century. This is a matter of vital concern not merely for historians of modern medicine. Important clinical work has frequently been undertaken on materials which have survived, usually by chance or by the foresight …
Migration, family structure and pauper lunacy in Victorian England
The lunatic asylum remains one of the most remarkable institutional monuments of the modern world, dominating the social landscape of Victorian Britain and exercising a powerful attraction for social historians of medicine, an attraction almost as great as the spectre of the madhouse for contemporary novelists. Our image of the Victorian asylum is still pervaded to a surprising degree by the gloomy spectacle of the total institution presented by …
A Proper Lunatic for Two Years
Joseph Melling, Richard Adair, Bill Forsythe; “A Proper Lunatic for Two Years ”: Pauper Lunatic Children in Victorian and Edwardian England. Child Admissio
Institutions and Economic Growth
This article reviews Mancur Olson's ideas concerning the impact of institutions on growth rates and national competitive performance. We suggest that Olson's "ideal typical" methodology limits the usefulness of his approach and that institutional structures and strategies can be dependent variables. In comparing the performance of three European countries in the postwar period, we argue (contrary to strict Olsonian principles) that changing marke…
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