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Download full textGreenwood, Judith – 1987
This paper begins by examining the history of disability payments to disabled workers, specifically disability payments to coal workers. Efforts by the United Mine Workers of America made mine health and safety an issue in the 1960s, and continuing liberalization of the law continued through the 1970s. The identification of coal miners with…
Descriptors: Coal, Labor Legislation, Mining, Occupational Diseases
