Workplace Accidents and Early Safety Policies in Spain, 1900-1932
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12210470 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Silvestre (University of British Columbia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 67-86 |
| Publication date | 2008-03-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social History of Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0951-631X • E-ISSN: 1477-4666 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/shm/hkm112 |
| OpenAlex | W2091674655 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 9 |
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, workplace accidents came to be perceived as a serious public health problem. Preventive safety policies were implemented in indus-trialising nations. The impact of these policies, however, has received little attention. This article shows that early safety policies in Spain failed and, as a result, workplace safety tended to deterio-rate. It confirms that legal regulation of safety standards and factory inspection, the strategy that became predominant in Europe, had little effect on reducing accidents. The International Labour Organization proposed supplementing legislation with further strategies that were well established in the USA, namely the use of workers ’ compensation programmes as an economic incentive for employers to invest in safety, and cooperation between employers and labour through the so-called Safety First movement. This article, however, argues that these strategies were difficult to adopt in Spain
Business · Compensation (psychology · Economic growth · Economic policy · Economics · Factory (object-oriented programming · Incentive · Legislation · Market economy · Occupational safety and health · Political science · Occupational Health and Safety Research · Psychology · Law
Small‐scale technologies and E uropean coal mine safety, 1850–1900
Wage Compensation for Workplace Disamenities during Industrialization
Improving Workplace Safety in the Ontario Manufacturing Industry, 1914–1939
Determinants of height and biological inequality in Mediterranean Spain, 1859–1967
Employers’ Mutuals and Accident Insurance Scheme in Spain
For the workers but without the workers’
Legal origin, ideology, coalition formation, or crisis? The emergence of labor law in a civil law country, Spain 1880–1936
Compensating the passengers. A comparison of the management of three London underground crashes 1909–1975
Origins of disaster management
Social History of Medicine in Spain. Points of Departure and Directions for Research
Atlantic Crossings
Workplace safety during the progressive era
Industrialization and occupational mortality in France prior to 1914
The Evolution of Global Labor Markets since 1830
Factory fatalities and regulation in Britain, 1878–1913
Regional wage convergence in Spain 1850–1930
Prevention of Industrial Accidents
Safety First
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,45 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2023 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |