000145700 001__ 145700 000145700 005__ 20241122130823.0 000145700 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.1093/shm/hkm112 000145700 0248_ $$2sideral$$a62433 000145700 037__ $$aART-2008-62433 000145700 041__ $$aeng 000145700 100__ $$0(orcid)0000-0003-0716-4713$$aSilvestre, Javier$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000145700 245__ $$aWorkplace Accidents and Early Safety Policies in Spain, 1900-1932 000145700 260__ $$c2008 000145700 5060_ $$aAccess copy available to the general public$$fUnrestricted 000145700 5203_ $$aDuring the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, workplace accidents came to be perceived as a serious public health problem. Preventive safety policies were implemented in industrialising nations. The impact of these policies, however, has received little attention. This article shows that early safety policies in Spain failed and, as a result, workplace safety tended to deteriorate. It confirms that legal regulation of safety standards and factory inspection, the strategy that became predominant in Europe, had little effect on reducing accidents. The International Labour Organization proposed supplementing legislation with further strategies that were well established in the USA, namely the use of workers' compensation programmes as an economic incentive for employers to invest in safety, and cooperation between employers and labour through the so-called Safety First movement. This article, however, argues that these strategies were difficult to adopt in Spain. 000145700 540__ $$9info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess$$aAll rights reserved$$uhttp://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/ 000145700 590__ $$a0.431$$b2008 000145700 591__ $$aHISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE$$b17 / 31 = 0.548$$c2008$$dQ3$$eT2 000145700 591__ $$aHISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE$$b21 / 40 = 0.525$$c2008$$dQ3$$eT2 000145700 655_4 $$ainfo:eu-repo/semantics/article$$vinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion 000145700 7102_ $$14008$$2480$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. Estruc.Hª Econ.y Eco.Pb.$$cÁrea Hª e Instituc.Económ. 000145700 773__ $$g21, 1 (2008), 67-86$$pSoc. hist. med.$$tSOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE$$x0951-631X 000145700 8564_ $$s269103$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/145700/files/texto_completo.pdf$$yPostprint 000145700 8564_ $$s207537$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/145700/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon$$xicon$$yPostprint 000145700 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:145700$$particulos$$pdriver 000145700 951__ $$a2024-11-22-11:52:53 000145700 980__ $$aARTICLE