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Heplers sophisticated and exciting enterprise brings the field of occupational health history to new levels of scholarship and analysis. David Rosner, Director of the Columbia School of Public Health Program Early in the twentieth century, states and courts began limiting the workplace hours of wage-earning women in order to protect them from fatigue and ill health. It was felt that a womans role was to be a mother and that working too many hours in an often unhealthy and dangerous workplace created risks to the performance of that task. In the 1970s, many Fortune 500 companies began implementing fetal protection policies to prohibit women from working in areas deemed risky to reproductive capacity. Again, assumptions about motherhood were the driving force behind employment regulations. Women in Labor examines how gender norms affected the workplace health of men and women. Did the desire to protect women result in a safer workplace for all workers? Did it advance or hinder the status of women in the workplace? In answering these questions, Hepler describes a complex network of medical experts, state bureaucrats, business owners, social reformers, industrial engineers, workers, an

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Author

Hepler, Allison L.

Publisher

Ohio State University Press, c2000.

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814250556

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Health & Fitness, History