Diana L DiStefano
Biographic Data
| ID | 6641038 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diana L DiStefano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diana L |
| FAMILY NAME | DiStefano |
| SIGNATURE | DISTEFANO D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bucknell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Disasters, Railway Workers, and the Law in Avalanche Country, 1880–1910
This essay examines how skilled Mountain West railway workers in Canada and the United States incorporated environmental problems into their work culture. Through experience they developed methods of predicting snow slides and embraced customs that compelled them to work even under the most dangerous conditions. These informal practices, rather than written work rules, guided the decisions they made to offset risk for both their co-workers and tr…
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Disasters, Railway Workers, and the Law in Avalanche Country, 1880–1910
This essay examines how skilled Mountain West railway workers in Canada and the United States incorporated environmental problems into their work culture. Through experience they developed methods of predicting snow slides and embraced customs that compelled them to work even under the most dangerous conditions. These informal practices, rather than written work rules, guided the decisions they made to offset risk for both their co-workers and tr…
American Environmental and Regional History (1 work) · Argument (complex analysis (1 work) · Canadian Identity and History (1 work) · Engineering (1 work) · Geography (1 work) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (1 work) · Law (1 work) · Natural disaster (1 work) · Political science (1 work) · Sociology (1 work)