The South Wales Miners Federation, Miners' Lung and the Instrumental Use of Expertise, 1900-1950:

摘要: Oral history materials from the South Wales Miners' Library are used to examine communal understandings of, and collective responses to, scourge of Lung (pneumoconiosis) in 1920s 1930s. Lay epidemiology mining communities attributed an aetiological role coaldust at a time when many experts believed miners' pulmonary disease be bronchitic, or silica-induced. In their efforts secure compensation claims for members, union officials instrumentally scientific expertise variety forms: they contributed epidemiological evidence; lobbied more government-funded research; `bought' experts; duped expert witnesses; made sophisticated instrumental appeals supposed independence favourable judgements. Eventually, situated `local knowledge' became orthodoxy, success story which may associated with class-conscious `bump irreverence' about knowledge, divided ...