Death Rode the Rails

Death Rode the Rails
Author: Mark Aldrich
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2006-04-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780801882364


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"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
Language: en
Pages: 492
Authors: Mark Aldrich
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-04-10 - Publisher: JHU Press

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