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Organizing trade unions to combat disease: The workers’ health bureau, 1921–1928

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  • The author would like to thank Charlotte Todes Stern for her cooperation in providing information on the Workers’ Health Bureau and for her keen criticisms of drafts of this paper. Thanks also go to John Young, Kathy Peiss, Donald Rogers and John Parascandola for their very useful suggestions. The Ellen Swallow Richards Fellowship of the American Association of University Women and a grant from the National Institutes of Health (Grant LM 03785–01) funded this research. An earlier version of this paper was delivered at the annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland, April 1982.

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