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Industrialization and occupational mortality in France prior to 1914

Abstract

Did workplace characteristics, such as the degree of mechanization or the level of managerial control, systematically influence occupational mortality rates in France at the beginning of the 20th century? Data from an early 20th-century study of occupational mortality in France lead us to conclude that long hours of work, under conditions where labor had limited control of the pace of work, represented the most serious occupational risk facing early French workers. The effect of long hours of work on mortality dwarfed the impact of either mechanization or size of establishment.

Authors

Lewchuk W

Journal

Explorations in Economic History, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 344–366

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

January 1, 1991

DOI

10.1016/0014-4983(91)90012-8

ISSN

0014-4983
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