Mining Danger: Industrial Disease, Accidents, and Pollution in Canada's Mines and Mining Communities, 1870-1990
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The Mining Danger Project will investigate historical threats to working people's health and safety in Canadian mines and mining communities. The project will analyze health and safety threats to miners across multiple cases studies and sectors in the industry. We will document the impact of health and safety issues on miners and their families, and also political battles between organized labour and mine owners over mine accidents, industrial disease, and pollution. Our overarching goal is to further connections between labour and environmental history, analyzing occupational health and safety in mines as one facet of class, race and gender struggles. We will also adopt new materialist approaches that explore mining accidents, health threats, and pollution as a product of technological interactions with non-human environments (underground and on the surface) in mines and mining communities. The project will increase public knowledge of the human and environmental costs of mining development, and provide historical context to occupational health and safety struggles in the present day.
