| 抄録(英文) | 労働科学 42巻 12号(1966)
J. Science of Labour Vol. 42, No. 12
UDC 622.8(091) (41-4) (44) (73)
イギリス・フランス・アメリカ合衆国に
おける炭鉱労働災害史概説
藤本武*
A SHORT HISTORY OF OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENTS
IN COAL MINES IN GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE
AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
SINCE THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
By
Takeshi FUJIMOTO*
In Great Britain and France, the rate of fatal accidents per 1000 coal miners increased in the period of industrial revolution, from 1900 to 1910, in the World War I, from 1921 to 1929 and in the World War II and decreased in the period from industrial revolution to 1900, in the several years after the World War I and after the 1929 panic. But in the United States, the rate was not reduced in the period from 1870 to 1900, though it decreased during the World War I and II.
In general, the improvement of labour protection and safety legislation, safety organisation and safety practices in the works and the development of working class movement had contributed to the reduction of accident rates, while the deterioration of working conditions and the intensification of work during the wars gave much influence on the rise of the accident rates. The decline of labour movement was also accompanied by a tendency to increase the rates.
After the World War II, although the death rate in these three countries decreased, the injury rate in Great Britain had steadily increased.
In the past hundred years, the death rates per 1000 miners employed decreased to one-tenth in Great Britain and to one-fifth in France, but the reduction in the United States did not exceed thirty percent, although the death rate per million tons of coal production had considerably decreased owing to the improvement of productivity.
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労働科学研究所・経済学研究部.産業労働研究室
Lab. of Industrial Labour, Division of Economics, Institute for Science of Labour. |