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- Title
'Stop kissing and steaming!': tuberculosis and the occupational health movement in Massachusetts and Lancashire, 1870--1918.
- Authors
Greenlees, Janet
- Abstract
The article reports on the development of public health reforms by Massachusetts and Lancashire during 1870-1918. Both states were the worlds' leading cotton manufacturers between 1870 and 1918 and both weaving trades practised steaming and shuttle kissing. Social concerns about reducing cases of tuberculosis in Massachusetts' cotton manufacturing cities led to the transference of the public health discourse from the urban living environment to the workplace. Instead, the urban public health discourse focused on living conditions.
- Subjects
MASSACHUSETTS; LANCASHIRE (England); ENGLAND; PUBLIC health; COTTON manufacture; TUBERCULOSIS; INDUSTRIAL hygiene; HEALTH care reform
- Publication
Urban History, 2005, Vol 32, Issue 2, p223
- ISSN
0963-9268
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0963926805002981