Death rode the rails : American railroad accidents and safety, 1828-1965 /
"For most of the nineteenth and much of the twentieth centuries, railroads dominated American transportation. They transformed life and they captured the imagination. Yet by 1907 railroads had also become the largest cause of violent death in the country, claiming that year the lives of nearly...
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| 100 | 1 | |a Aldrich, Mark. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Death rode the rails : |b American railroad accidents and safety, 1828-1965 / |c Mark Aldrich. |
| 246 | 3 | 0 | |a American railroad accidents and safety, 1828-1965 |
| 260 | |a Baltimore, Md. : |b Johns Hopkins University Press, |c 2006. | ||
| 300 | |a xvi, 446 p., [16] p. of plates : |b ill. ; |c 27 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-437) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a In the beginning: American railroad dangers and safety, 1828-1873 -- Off the tracks: the changing pattern of derailments, 1873-1900 -- Collisions and the rise of regulation, 1873-1900 -- Major risks from minor accidents, 1873-1900 -- Engineering success and disaster: bridge design and failure, 1840-1900 -- Coping with casualties: companies, workers, and injuries, 1850-1900 -- Safety crisis and safety first, 1900-1920 -- Lobbying for regulation: transporting hazardous substances, 1903-1930 -- Private enterprise and public regulation: safety between the wars, 1922-1939 -- Safety in war and decline, 1940-1965 -- Conclusion: the political economy of railroad safety, 1830-1965 -- Appendix 1: nineteenth-century railroad accident and casualty statistics -- Appendix 2: Casulties and accidents from Interstate Commerce Commission statistics, 1888-1965. | |
| 520 | 1 | |a "For most of the nineteenth and much of the twentieth centuries, railroads dominated American transportation. They transformed life and they captured the imagination. Yet by 1907 railroads had also become the largest cause of violent death in the country, claiming that year the lives of nearly twelve thousand passengers, workers, and others. In Death Rode the Rails Mark Aldrich explores the evolution of railroad safety in the United States by examining a variety of incidents: the spectacular train wrecks, the smaller accidents in shops and yards which devastated the lives of workers and their families, and the deaths of thousands of women and children killed while walking on or crossing the street-grade tracks." | |
| 520 | 8 | |a "The evolution of railroad safety, Aldrich argues, involved the interplay of market forces, science and technology, and legal and public pressures. He considers the railroad as a system in its entirety: operational realities, technical constraints, economic history, internal politics, and labor management. Aldrich shows that economics initially encouraged American carriers to build and operate cheap and dangerous lines. Only over time did the trade-off between safety and output - shaped by labor markets and public policy - motivate carriers to develop technological improvements that enhanced both productivity and safety."--Jacket. | |
| 650 | 2 | 2 | |a Safety Management. |
| 650 | 2 | 2 | |a History, 20th Century. |
| 650 | 2 | 2 | |a History, 19th Century. |
| 650 | 2 | 2 | |a Accidents. |
| 651 | 2 | |a United States. | |
| 650 | 1 | 2 | |a Railroads. |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Railroads |z United States |x Safety measures |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Railroad accidents |z United States |x History. | |
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