Improving Workplace Safety in the Ontario Manufacturing Industry, 1914-1939

Silvestre, Javier (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: The safety of workers and the costs to employers and the economy as a whole became a serious problem in industrializing nations. Workplace safety in the Ontario manufacturing industry deteriorated at the end of the nineteenth century. In response, the province legislated to regulate safety standards and factory inspection. However, this strategy failed to reduce accident rates. As in the United States, it was the enactment of workers' compensation legislation that generated the economic incentives for Ontario's employers to invest in safety. Yet in contrast to the United States, where safety was predominantly organized inside firms, employers in Ontario developed a comprehensive institutional framework to organize a range of safety actions.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1017/S0007680500002233

Año: 2010

Publicado en: BUSINESS HISTORY REVIEW 84, 3 (2010), 527-550
ISSN: 0007-6805

Factor impacto JCR: 0.684 (2010)

Categ. JCR: HISTORY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES rank: 7 / 26 = 0.269 (2010) - Q2 - T1
Categ. JCR: BUSINESS rank: 79 / 102 = 0.775 (2010) - Q4 - T3

Tipo y forma: Article (PostPrint)

Área (Departamento): Área Hª e Instituc.Económ. (Dpto. Estruc.Hª Econ.y Eco.Pb.)