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Dangerous Exposures: Visualizing Work and Waste in the Victorian Chemical Trades
International Labor and Working-Class History ( IF 0.563 ) Pub Date : 2019-01-01 , DOI: 10.1017/s014754791900005x
Jennifer Tucker

Cheshire, Britain, and the towns of Widnes and St. Helens, where many of the world's first chemical factories and towns were created in the nineteenth century, is an especially important place to study historical responses to industrial pollution and its social costs. This paper, based on newly recovered archival sources about the Victorian alkali industry, explores the role of visual imagery, particularly drawings and lantern slides, in materializing the connection between labor in chemical trades, the disposal of waste, and poor health outcomes for diverse communities in the late nineteenth century. The paper will focus on the writer Robert Sherard's article “White Slaves of England” (1897), a work that, more than many of its time, drew national attention to the plight of nineteenth-century chemical workers by pictorializing the ways that work in heavy chemical industries, many of them involving waste and its disposal, affected individual workers and their lives. The paper concludes with critical reflections on the current state of scholarship on images, waste, and labor, areas for more needed work, and paths forward.

中文翻译:

危险接触:可视化维多利亚式化学行业中的工作和废物

英国的柴郡以及Widnes和St. Helens镇是19世纪建立许多世界上第一批化学工厂和城镇的地方,是研究工业污染及其社会成本的历史响应的特别重要的地方。本文基于新近发现的有关维多利亚州碱业的档案资料,探讨了视觉图像,特别是图纸和灯笼滑梯,在实现化学行业劳动力,废物处置和不同社区健康状况差之间的联系方面的作用。在十九世纪末期。本文将重点关注作家罗伯特·谢拉德(Robert Sherard)的文章“英格兰的白色奴隶”(1897年),该作品在许多时间里,通过描绘重化学工业的工作方式来吸引全国关注19世纪化学工作者的困境,其中许多方法涉及废物及其处置,影响了个体工人及其生活。本文以对图像,废物和劳动力的当前学术状况,需要做的工作的领域以及前进道路的批判性反思作为结束语。
更新日期:2019-01-01
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