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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501706349
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Clearing the AirDDC classification:
  • 331.25/6
LOC classification:
  • HF5549.5.S55
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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