Article ID: CBB582770736

Risk and Respirators: The Hazardous Trajectories of Soviet Occupational Safety, 1940s–80s (2022)

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This article explores a distinct Soviet policy of occupational care that emerged after World War II, when Soviet industry invented an array of respiratory protective equipment (RPE). The annual production of millions of devices highlighted the development of a complex Soviet transinstitutional system for insuring safe occupational breathing. Following key premises of respiratory safety policies in the activities of Soviet organizations, this article traces a biopolitical shift from mortality to vitality. By showing the curial role of RPE in the history of occupational rather than military safety in the twentieth century, the article fills a major research gap to feature Soviet modernity through the unique lens of industrial respiratory care in postwar Soviet Union between the late 1940s and the early 1990s.

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Authors & Contributors
Peter B. Thompson
Barany, Michael J.
Broglio, Ron
Dean, Katrina
Evans, James
Hausman, Bernice L.
Journals
History and Technology
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Australian Journal of Politics and History
Cina
Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
Health and History
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Harvard University
McGill-Queen's University Press
Oxford University Press
Florida International University
SUNY Press
Concepts
Gas masks
Labor and laborers
Biopolitics
World War I
Chemical warfare
Technology and war; technology and the military
People
Malthus, Thomas Robert
Mei, Piao
Smith, Adam
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century, early
20th century
21st century
19th century
Modern
Places
Great Britain
Soviet Union
California (U.S.)
Australia
Bulgaria
France
Institutions
University of Melbourne
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