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• Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency
  ...he fastest changing periods for Koreans who lived in during the industrial revolution of Korea. Before moving to the history of KOSHA, we need to examine the env ...en into cities which needed less expensive labor. At the very beginning of industrial boom, most small-medium factories and industries could take-off to increase
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• Asbestos
  Asbestos became more widespread during the industrial revolution; in the 1866 it was used as insulation in the U.S. and Canada. Development ...M. Murray, testimony before the Departmental Committee on Compensation for Industrial Diseases "Minutes of Evidence, Appendices and Index", 1907. pg 127 cited an
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• Health and safety law
  ...ramework in the UK only began to develop towards the end of the industrial revolution and clearly employers and business at the time had a vested interest to opp
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• Work–life balance (United States)
  ...n thirty hours a week. Instead, Roosevelt began to support the [[National Industrial Recovery Act]]. Labor leaders were encouraged to support the NIRA instead o ...of affluence were not part of life. They weren’t triggered until the [[Industrial Age]], and now the [[Information Age]] has worsened them. Nowadays, instea
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• Michael H. Belzer
  ...trucking industry]] operations, regulation, industrial organization, and [[industrial relations]]. In that capacity, he directs its Trucking Industry Benchmarki ...htm?/People/belzer.htm Michael H. Belzer Home Page, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations.]</ref>
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• Alice Hamilton
  ...toxicology]], studying occupational illnesses and the dangerous effects of industrial metals and chemical compounds on the [[human body]]. ...7, Hamilton began exploring existing literature from abroad, noticing that industrial medicine was not being studied much in America. She set out to change this,
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• Lead poisoning
  ...ad compounds as gasoline additives]], but such compounds are still used in industrial settings.<ref name="Katzung07-948"/> Organic lead compounds, which cross t ...{Cite pmid|19697571}}</ref> Causes of environmental contamination include industrial use of lead, such as is found in plants that process lead-acid batteries or
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• Lead
  The largest [[Industrial Revolution|preindustrial]] producer of lead was the [[Roman economy]], with an estimat ...e of the dangers of lead poisoning. However, [[lead chromate]] is still in industrial use. Lead carbonate (white) is the traditional pigment for the priming medi
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• Impact wrench
  ...significantly lower than corded electric or air-powered equivalents. Some industrial tools are hydraulically powered, using high-speed [[hydraulic motor]]s, and ...er blows twice per revolution, or slower, more powerful ones only once per revolution.
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• List of colleges and universities named after people
  ...trialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, and the [[Mellon Institute of Industrial Research]], founded in 1913 by Andrew and Richard Mellon. | Lucy Skidmore Scribner formed the Young Women's Industrial Club in 1903 with inheritance money from her father, a prosperous coal merc
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• Trichloroethylene
  ...ylene''' is a [[chlorine|chlorinated]] [[hydrocarbon]] commonly used as an industrial [[solvent]]. It is a clear non-flammable liquid with a sweet smell. ...Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry|IUPAC]] name is '''trichloroethene'''. Industrial abbreviations include '''TCE''', '''trichlor''', '''Trike''', '''Tricky'''
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• Ted Kaczynski
  ...ublished his [[manifesto]]. In his ''[[s:Industrial Society and Its Future|Industrial Society and Its Future]]'' (also called the "Unabomber Manifesto"), he argu ....htm |first=John |last=Moore |title=Beyond the Fragments – A reaction to Industrial Society and Its Future |work=Green Anarchist |volume=#51 |issue=Spring 1998
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• Insurgency
  ...xample the [[French Revolution]] had no cell system, and in the [[American Revolution]] little to no attempt was made to terrorize civilians, or consecutive [[#c ...''') “overthrow or '''undermine''' parliamentary democracy by political, industrial or violent means.” While insurgents do not necessarily use terror, it is
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• Terrorism
  ...cited this precedent when imposing a [[Reign of Terror]] during the French Revolution.<ref name=tws11janr987>{{cite news ...ducation, Poverty, and Terrorism among Palestinians," Princeton University Industrial Relations Section Working paper, 2003 and Krueger and Jita Maleckova, "Educ
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• Ken Alibek
  ...s medical school laboratory skills into the complex skill set required for industrial level production of [[microorganism]]s and their toxins.<ref>Anderson, D. ( ...and [[pesticide]]. At [[Stepnogorsk]], Alibekov created the most efficient industrial scale assembly line for biological formulations. In a time of war, the asse
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• Domestic terrorism in the United States
  ...particularly associated with modern technology. In 1996, his [[wikisource:Industrial Society and Its Future|manifesto]] was published in ''[[The New York Times] ...] and the George W. Bush administration were reasons for him to call for [[revolution|violent revolt]].
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• Churning (butter)
  ...he purpose. In [[Europe]] from the [[Middle Ages]] until the [[Industrial Revolution]], this was generally as simple as a barrel with a plunger in it, which was
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• Infant formula
  | title = Revolution at the Table: The Transformation of the American Diet | url = http://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Table-Transformation-American-California/dp/0520234391
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• Raw milk
  ...discovery of the [[pasteurization]] process in 1864. During the industrial revolution large populations congregated into urban areas detached from the agricultur
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• Lard
  ...er, is skimmed off of the surface of the mixture, or it is separated in an industrial [[centrifuge]]. In dry rendering, the fat is exposed to high heat in a pan ...table oils, and it was common in many people's diet until the [[industrial revolution]] made vegetable oils more common and more affordable. [[Vegetable shorteni
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