{"id":1312,"date":"2019-01-15T18:56:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T18:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/?p=1312"},"modified":"2019-01-15T18:58:34","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T18:58:34","slug":"health-and-safety-in-contemporary-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/?p=1312","title":{"rendered":"Health and Safety in Contemporary Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Dr Mike Esbester, Senior Lecturer in History, has just published a book with Professor Paul Almond on Health and Safety in Contemporary Britain: Society, Legitimacy and Change since 1960<\/em>. The book charts the development of modern British health and safety, in response to ideas around risk society, managerialism, regulatory capitalism, and demographic and economic changes in the workplace. Mike\u2019s research focuses on the cultural history of safety, risk and accident prevention in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Health and Safety in Contemporary Britain – Society, Legitimacy, and Change since 1960 | Paul Almond | Palgrave Macmillan <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To read more about the book, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n