3 ms·
It was just as bad only with industrial accidents and diseases on top.
by buckminster 7y ago
It was just as bad only with industrial accidents and diseases on top.
- baryphonic 7y agoEntire families working in the fields all day didn't have accidents or diseases in subsistence farming?
- buckminster 7y agoIn the UK industrial accidents were commonplace until the passing of The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. The very many maimings and deaths it has (belatedly) prevented are less common in subsidence farming. Of course farmers get sick, but they don't get the diseases created by industry. There are a great many respiratory conditions and cancers that don't occur naturally.