HIST 1080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Industrial Revolution, Normal Accidents, Coroner
7 Jan 2018
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Other kinds of disasters at this time but these railway accidents happened in public view (countryside, suburbs ) Subject of fascination for victorians at the time. Cast this long shadow on rest of 18th to 20th century: marx, james, freud feature accidents in the grand theories they develop. 1 a new understanding of what causes accidents. 2 a new understanding of risk and, with it, a new kind of accident - the technological. Have external causes: with industrial revolution, new kind of tech accident in which machines begin to destroy themselves from within. 3 a new set of illness and effects on public health. 4 a new way of talking about technological disasters. Railways create unique sets of illnesses unlike flu or cholera. People in cites surrounded by new theatre of machines. Idea that western civilization is progressing throng this technology leaving behind other people and moving toward some kind of perfection.
