Harvest of Hazards: Family Farming, Accidents, and Expertise by Derek S. Oden
By Derek S. Oden
In this learn of the farm protection flow within the Corn Belt, historian Derek Oden examines why agriculture used to be so risky and why advancements have been so tricky to accomplish. simply because farmers have been self-employed enterprise vendors whose staff have been typically family; simply because they lived faraway from reduction comparable to hospitals and fireplace stations; and since that they had to regulate this sort of various array of latest applied sciences, they can now not simply undertake the office security and public overall healthiness reforms designed for factories and concrete settings. In reaction, starting within the Forties, farmers and a brand new breed of farm security experts relied upon an more and more intricate academic crusade to minimize accidents and health problems at the farm.
Several govt, company, and nonprofit organizations—from the united states division of Agriculture to the nationwide defense Council and 4-H and the longer term Farmers of America—worked jointly to publicize either the risks of farming and the knowledge farmers had to remain secure whereas riding tractors, utilizing anhydrous ammonia, or repairing equipment. by means of the Nineteen Sixties, although, the partnership started to holiday down, and via the Nineteen Seventies the protection move grew to become more and more contested as specialist and coverage divisions emerged. This groundbreaking examine contains agriculture into the histories of occupational safeguard and public health.
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