In message <[log in to unmask]>, Mike Esbester
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>I am currently researching occupational safety on the railways between
>1913 and 1939. Part of my work has led me to consider how workplace
>skills are transmitted. I am interested in how much influence companies
>had over what their manual employees were actually doing (as opposed to
>what they should have been doing) on a day-to-day basis. I am not
>thinking so much of being AWOL or drinking on the job or similar; more I
>am thinking of ways in which the companies tried to tell their manual
>employees how to perform their jobs (for example, the ‘correct’ way of
>firing an engine, packing a sleeper, operating a lathe etc).
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>I would imagine that Mutual Improvement Classes played a role in this (at
>least for the enginemen; did anything similar exist for the other grades?). If
>anyone could point me in the direction of primary or secondary sources
>relating to Mutual Improvement Classes or educational facilities aimed at
>the workers (particularly the manual grades), I would be most grateful.
>
The LNER staff magazine sometimes contained some basic working safety
advice, in the form of a pair of photos showing the right and wrong ways
to carry out a process, with warnings of some of the possible
consequences of doing it the wrong way. As far as I remember these were
mainly aimed at the factory staff.
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Sue
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