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Clearing the Air : The Rise and Fall of Smoking in the Workplace.

Wood, Gregory.

Clearing the Air : The Rise and Fall of Smoking in the Workplace. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (257 pages)

Clearing the Air -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Nicotine and Working-Class History -- 1. Reformers, Employers, and the Dangers of Working-Class Smoking -- 2. Smoking Bans and Shop Floor Resistance during the Early Twentieth Century -- 3. Workers, Management, and the Right to Smoke during World War II -- 4. Antismoking Politics in Postwar Workplaces -- 5. "Exiled Smoking" and the Making of Smoke-Free Workplaces -- 6. Organized Labor and the Problem of "Smokers' Rights" -- Conclusion: Quitting Smoking and the Endurance of Nicotine -- Notes -- Index.

In Clearing the Air, Gregory Wood examines smoking's importance to the social and cultural history of working people in the twentieth-century United States.

9781501706349


Smoking in the workplace--United States--History--20th century.


Electronic books.

HF5549.5.S55

331.25/6

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