Health and Safety in Contemporary Britain: Society, Legitimacy, and Change Since 1960 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783030039691)

Paul Almond is Professor of Law at the University of Reading, UK. His research explores the interrelationship of the criminal law, corporate criminology and regulation and governance studies, and is particularly concerned with issues of health and safety regulation and workplace fatality and disaster. He is the author of Corporate Manslaughter and Regulatory Reform (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
Mike Esbester is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Portsmouth, UK. His research focuses on the history of risk, safety and accident prevention in modern Britain. He co-edited (with Tom Crook) Governing Risks in Modern Britain: Danger, Safety and Accidents, c.1800-2000 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and is now producing a monograph on British railway worker safety, 1871-1948.