Death Rode the Rails - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death Rode the Rails write by Mark Aldrich. This book was released on 2006-04-10. Death Rode the Rails available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The evolution of railroad safety, Aldrich argues, involved the interplay of market forces, science and technology, and legal and public pressures. He considers the railroad as a system in its entirety: operational realities, technical constraints, economic history, internal politics, and labor management. Aldrich shows that economics initially encouraged American carriers to build and operate cheap and dangerous lines. Only over time did the trade-off between safety and output - shaped by labor markets and public policy - motivate carriers to develop technological improvements that enhanced both productivity and safety."--BOOK JACKET.
Death Rode the Rails
Death Rode the Rails - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death Rode the Rails write by Mark Aldrich. This book was released on 2009-11-09. Death Rode the Rails available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For most of the 19th and much of the 20th centuries, railroads dominated American transportation. They transformed life and captured the imagination. Yet by 1907 railroads had also become the largest cause of violent death in the country, that year claiming the lives of nearly twelve thousand passengers, workers, and others. In Death Rode the Rails Mark Aldrich explores the evolution of railroad safety in the United States by examining a variety of incidents: spectacular train wrecks, smaller accidents in shops and yards that devastated the lives of workers and their families, and the deaths of thousands of women and children killed while walking on or crossing the street-grade tracks. The evolution of railroad safety, Aldrich argues, involved the interplay of market forces, science and technology, and legal and public pressures. He considers the railroad as a system in its entirety: operational realities, technical constraints, economic history, internal politics, and labor management. Aldrich shows that economics initially encouraged American carriers to build and operate cheap and dangerous lines. Only over time did the trade-off between safety and output—shaped by labor markets and public policy—motivate carriers to develop technological improvements that enhanced both productivity and safety. A fascinating account of one of America's most important industries and its dangers, Death Rode the Rails will appeal to scholars of economics and the history of transportation, technology, labor, regulation, safety, and business, as well as to railroad enthusiasts.
Death Rode the Rails
Death Rode the Rails - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death Rode the Rails write by Mark Aldrich. This book was released on 2006-04-10. Death Rode the Rails available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The evolution of railroad safety, Aldrich argues, involved the interplay of market forces, science and technology, and legal and public pressures. He considers the railroad as a system in its entirety: operational realities, technical constraints, economic history, internal politics, and labor management. Aldrich shows that economics initially encouraged American carriers to build and operate cheap and dangerous lines. Only over time did the trade-off between safety and output - shaped by labor markets and public policy - motivate carriers to develop technological improvements that enhanced both productivity and safety."--BOOK JACKET.
Death Rides the Zephyr
Death Rides the Zephyr - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death Rides the Zephyr write by Janet Dawson. This book was released on 2020-08-26. Death Rides the Zephyr available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. December 23, 1952. A transcontinental train is stopped cold by a rockslide in a remote Colorado canyon. There’s a murderer aboard, one who has already killed, and will kill again unless stopped. The California Zephyr, with its run from Oakland to Chicago and back, was famous for its Vista-Domes, which provided a 360-degree view of spectacular Western scenery. It was a kind of small city populated by passengers from all walks of life and a large crew whose duty it was to keep them safe. Zephyrette Jill McLeod is the passengers’ primary point of contact. She’s armed for any emergency—with a first-aid kit, a screwdriver, and her knowledge of human nature. But can she figure out a ruthless killer's clever plot in time?
The Great Southwest Railroad Strike and Free Labor
The Great Southwest Railroad Strike and Free Labor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Southwest Railroad Strike and Free Labor write by Theresa Ann Case. This book was released on 2010. The Great Southwest Railroad Strike and Free Labor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
