When the Air Became Important: A Social History of the New England and Lancashire Textile Industries

by Janet Greenlees

In When the Air Became Important , medical historian Janet Greenlees examines the working environments of the heartlands of the British and American cotton textile industries from the nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. Greenlees contends that the air quality within these pioneering workplaces was a key contributor to the health of the wider communities of which they were a part. Such enclosed environments, where large numbers of people labored...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813587964
• ISBN13: 9780813587967
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher