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Germs in the English Workplace, c.1880-1945 (Paperback)
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Germs in the English Workplace, c.1880-1945 (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
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This book looks at how the workplace was transformed through a
greater awareness of the roles that germs played in English working
lives from c.1880 to 1945. Cutting across a diverse array of
occupational settings - such as the domestic kitchen, the milking
shed, the factory, and the Post Office - it offers new perspectives
on the history of the germ sciences. It brings to light the ways in
which germ scientists sought to transform English working lives
through new types of technical and educational interventions that
sought to both eradicate and instrumentalise germs. It then asks
how we can measure and judge the success of such interventions by
tracing how workers responded to the potential applications of the
germ sciences through their participation in friendly societies,
trade unions, colleges, and volunteer organisations. Throughout the
book, close attention is paid to reconstructing vernacular
traditions of working with invisible life in order to better
understand both the successes and failures of the germ sciences to
transform the working practices and material conditions of
different workplaces. The result is a more diverse history of the
peoples, politics, and practices that went into shaping the germ
sciences in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century England.
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