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 ===== Arthur McEvoy, "Working Environments" ===== ===== Arthur McEvoy, "Working Environments" =====
 **McEvoy makes an interesting comparison between the human body and ecological systems.** However, I thought his comparison of "Accidents and diseases are an ecological consequence of that organization no less than soil erosion is a consequence of the economies of agriculture or fishery depletion has its roots in the regulatory structure of fishing."(p78) This quote was particularly interesting to me because it showed that white industrialization, accidents and diseases are more prominent than they were previously but they are a risk that goes hand in hand with industrialization. The same is true that agricultural economies face the risk of soil erosion and fishermen face the potential for fishery depletion. While none of these outcomes are pleasant, they are a very real risk that comes with the territory. -Emma Baumgardner  **McEvoy makes an interesting comparison between the human body and ecological systems.** However, I thought his comparison of "Accidents and diseases are an ecological consequence of that organization no less than soil erosion is a consequence of the economies of agriculture or fishery depletion has its roots in the regulatory structure of fishing."(p78) This quote was particularly interesting to me because it showed that white industrialization, accidents and diseases are more prominent than they were previously but they are a risk that goes hand in hand with industrialization. The same is true that agricultural economies face the risk of soil erosion and fishermen face the potential for fishery depletion. While none of these outcomes are pleasant, they are a very real risk that comes with the territory. -Emma Baumgardner 
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 +I think that the connection that McEvoy makes between the effect that industrialization has not only on the physical environment, but on the social environment as well. On page 78 it is stated that "Technology, in addition, plays an important role in shaping peoples consciousness of occupational hazard, just as it does in the awareness of other social problems"(78). I find it interesting that in this time period it took a great amount of convincing for the people to recognize the severity of the risks that came with the workplace. It took an equal amount of convincing to make the owners of factories to implement safety measures for their workers. Given how much labor was lost due to these accidents and the overall setback that it had on the organization structure of these factories. The idea that so many accidents that lead to death or severe injury that went unnoticed is baffling. --Kendell Jenkins
  
 I found it interesting how McEvoy compared nature and workers as “close cousins working on opposite sides of the factory gate:” (81) He follows up his statement saying “one destroys the productivity of air, water, and other natural systems, while the other destroys a human body’s biological capacity to work.” (81) I never would’ve thought about these two parts of industry to go hand in hand with each other because just as the argument McEvoy was making, it’s usually overlooked and both parts (nature and workers) are interchangeable just like the machines that they are being used for. – Jessie Cavolt I found it interesting how McEvoy compared nature and workers as “close cousins working on opposite sides of the factory gate:” (81) He follows up his statement saying “one destroys the productivity of air, water, and other natural systems, while the other destroys a human body’s biological capacity to work.” (81) I never would’ve thought about these two parts of industry to go hand in hand with each other because just as the argument McEvoy was making, it’s usually overlooked and both parts (nature and workers) are interchangeable just like the machines that they are being used for. – Jessie Cavolt
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