This article explores the myriad of health hazards and dangers faced by industrial workers in Belfast between 1870 and 1914, as well as the efforts made by reformers and legislators to protect them. The article uses a variety of official sources to demonstrate the varying and distinctly gendered experience of men, women, and children working in the factories, mills, and shipyards of the city, as well as the gendered nature of the legislation put in place in this period. The article argues that the societal norms and expectations that informed legislation contributed to the gender gap that emerged in protective legislation. Female workers were seen in the same category as children and were protected paternalistically by a state still grappling with the changing position of women in an industrialising society, while men were expected to face ‘bravely’ the dangers of industrial work with little or no state intervention.

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为帝国献出生命和肢体：贝尔法斯特工业区的性别和职业健康，1870-1914

本文探讨了 1870 年至 1914 年间贝尔法斯特工业工人面临的无数健康危害和危险，以及改革者和立法者为保护他们所做的努力。这篇文章使用各种官方资料来展示在城市的工厂、磨坊和造船厂工作的男性、女性和儿童的不同且明显的性别体验，以及在此实施的立法的性别性质。时期。文章认为，知情立法的社会规范和期望导致了保护性立法中出现的性别差距。女工被视为与儿童相同的类别，并受到一个仍在努力应对工业化社会中妇女地位变化的国家的家长式保护，