Occupational safety and health of factory workers in European countries in the nineteenth century: historical and legal analysis

ABSTRACT

Historical and legal analysis of factory workers’ occupational safety and health in Europe in the nineteenth century has been carried out. In particular, the main causes of industrial injury and occupational diseases among factory workers of those times were analyzed and classified. The main negative consequences of child labor in factories are determined. The distribution of industrial injury and occupational diseases by age group is shown. The influence of labor conditions at the factories on the health of the descendants of factory workers of those times was analyzed. The features of the organization of control over compliance with the safety requirements of workers’ health are highlighted. The issues of introduction of legal regulation of factory workers’ safety and health, as well as child labor regulation (i.e. working hours limits and working conditions regulation) in factories, are analyzed. The issues of implementation of legislation that established compensations for factory workers in the event of industrial injury and occupational diseases of those times are analyzed.

KEYWORDS:

• Occupational safety and health
• factory
• factory law
• factory inspections
• industrial injury

Acknowledgments

We would like to acknowledge the following people, who helped us:

• our families, for their love and support,

• the editorial board of the journal - for their attention and support,

• our colleagues from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv – for sharing their wisdom and experience.

Disclosure statement

Project 2020 for young Ukrainian scholars «Legal enforcement of social security in the European integration conditions» (sate registration number 20BF042-01).

Autobiographical sketch

The authors of the article are really interested in different issues of the labor law, they hope that their years of teaching experience will contribute for the better understand of these issues

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Kovalenko Ruslan

Kovalenko Ruslan - Candidate of Law, Assistant Professor of Labor Law and Social Security Law. He gained proper communication skills during scientific, teaching and practical activities. Experience as a specialist in the implementation of European social security acts in national legislation. Areas of professional interest: Theoretical and legal issues of the employment contract with certain categories of employees; trends in the formation of social security law; codification of social security legislation; pension reform in Ukraine; social security.

Mykola Inshyn

Mykola Inshin - Doctor of Law, Head of the Department of Labor Law and Social Security Law. He gained proper communication skills during scientific, teaching and practical activities. He gained the appropriate organizational skills working part-time for more than 8 years as the head of the legal department at the company. Experience as a lecturer Participated in the development of draft regulations. Areas of professional interests: realization of the constitutional right to work; problems of labor law, social security law; guarantees of labor and social rights; features of work of civil servants; Occupational Health; international legal regulation of labor; problems of labor rights protection.

Sirokha Dmytro

Sirokha Dmytro - Candidate of Law, Associate Professor of the Department of Labor Law and Social Security Law. He gained proper communication skills during scientific, teaching and practical activities. He gained proper organizational skills working as a private entrepreneur for more than 10 years, as a deputy head, head of a private enterprise. Experience as a lecturer in the training of arbitration managers Participated in the development of draft regulations. Areas of professional interest: Rule-making in labor law Legal regulation of liability in labor relations Legal regulation of labor of certain categories of persons Labor protection.

Tishchenko Yelena

Tyshchenko Olena - Doctor of Law, Professor of the Department of Labor Law and Social Security Law. In the process of scientific and pedagogical activity she received a set of knowledge, skills and abilities in professional etiquette, public speaking, literate oral and written business speech. Since 2011 I have been acting Deputy Executive Secretary of the Admissions Committee of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv on Legal Affairs; I carry out educational and scientific. Prepared scientific conclusions at the request of people's deputies of Ukraine, the Supreme Court of Ukraine, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine on the legislative regulation of retirement age, the peculiarities of pension provision. Areas of professional interest: Theoretical and legal issues of the employment contract with certain categories of employees; trends in the formation of social security law; codification of social security legislation; pension reform in Ukraine; socio-legal situation of vulnerable segments of the population.

Arsentieva Olena

Arsentieva Olena - Candidate of Law, Associate Professor of Law, Dean of the Faculty of Law. She acquired proper communication skills while working in the civil service and practicing law. There is experience in holding and organizing mass events, such as: conferences, round tables and student leisure. Areas of professional interest: Social security law, labor law, legal deontology, labor protection