On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Martin Roe wrote:
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> Reports of accidents and working conditions included in various parlimentry
> enquieries etc have to be used with great caution. As with any politics
> there is always a hidden adgenda and the figures are usually presented to
> make a statement. I is very dangerous to make the asumption that coal mining
> was naturally a very hazadous occupation, other industries such as textiles
> had higher mortalty rates amoungst workers.
I have never, ever seen it contended in any work of scholarship that
textile workers had higher mortality rates than coal miners in the
nineteenth century. I would love to know where you are getting your
information.
Jamie Bronstein
New Mexico State University
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