Im/Migration, Work, and Health: Anthropology and the Occupational Health of Labor Im/Migrants

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• Personal Author:
  Flynn MA
• Description:
  From Rudolf Virchow's groundbreaking investigation of typhus among coal miners in 1848 (Brown and Fee 2006) through the World Health Organization's adoption of the social determinants of health (WHO 2008) paradigm in 2008, the relationship between work and health has been fundamental to the development of a social approach to health and well-being found in anthropology today (Abrams 2001; Brown and Fee 2006; Farmer et al. 2006; Singer et al. 1992). Concurrently, the working conditions of im/migrants figured prominently in the early studies and events establishing occupational health as a field in the United States (Abrams 2001). For example, the first publication on the relationship between work and health in the United States, written by Benjamin McReady in 1837, focused on Irish im/migrants working on the canal and rail systems connecting the Eastern seaboard with the Great Lakes (Abrams 2001). A historic turning point in the effort to securing safer working conditions in the United States occurred in New York City in 1911 when im/migrant women made up the majority of workers killed in the fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company. In the same time period, Dr. Alice Hamilton, the founder of occu- pational medicine in the United States, spent much of her early career studying and treating work-related diseases and conditions of im/migrant workers she met through her association with Jane Addams at the Hull-House in Chicago (Abrams 2001). [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Coal Coal Mining Emigration And Immigration Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Immigrant Workers Coal Miners Immigrant Workers Migrant Health Migrant Workers Occupational Health SDOH Social Determinants Of Health Structural Vulnerability Workplace Injury
• ISSN:
  0883-024X
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  EID - Education and Information Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  116-123
• Volume:
  39
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20054011
• Citation:
  Anthropol Work Rev 2018 Dec; 39(2):116-123
• Email:
  mflynn@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2019
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Anthropology of Work Review
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d9819ffcdc0a79f1cc28a7618e1d3e8f011bb40a875d4e8186c908e620d0f4e1064e2556e1823774a7da30a1da7cea9f096a839bd3aabc0b0e4a7964501070ae
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/216662/cdc_216662_DS1.pdf
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