Death rode the rails American railroad accidents and safety, 1828-1965 /
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| 100 | 1 | |a Aldrich, Mark. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Death rode the rails |h [electronic resource] : |b American railroad accidents and safety, 1828-1965 / |c Mark Aldrich. |
| 260 | |a Baltimore, Md. : |b Johns Hopkins University Press, |c 2006. | ||
| 300 | |a xvi, 446 p., [16] p. of plates : |b ill. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-437) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a In the beginning: American railroad dangers and safety, 1828-1873 -- Off the tracks: the changing pattern of derailments, 1873-1900 -- Collisions and the rise of regulation, 1873-1900 -- Major risks from minor accidents, 1873-1900 -- Engineering success and disaster: bridge design and failure, 1840-1900 -- Coping with casualties: companies, workers, and injuries, 1850-1900 -- Safety crisis and safety first, 1900-1920 -- Lobbying for regulation: transporting hazardous substances, 1903-1930 -- Private enterprise and public regulation: safety between the wars, 1922-1939 -- Safety in war and decline, 1940-1965 -- Conclusion: the political economy of railroad safety, 1830-1965 -- Appendix 1: nineteenth-century railroad accident and casualty statistics -- Appendix 2: Casulties and accidents from Interstate Commerce Commission statistics, 1888-1965. | |
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