2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Business History of "Safety First": Examining the Japanese Coal Mining Industry
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20K01797
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 07070:Economic history-related
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| Research Institution | Rikkyo University (2023)
Toyo University (2020-2022) |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | 安全衛生 / 石炭産業 / 労務管理 / 現場係員 / 熟練労働者 / 炭鉱技術 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The results of this study are as follows: (1) Postwar Japanese technological innovations in coal production technology were generally designed with safety and health considerations in mind. (2) In actual work sites, operations that disregarded safety and health were the norm due to a prevailing sense of security that disasters would not occur. (3) In order to prevent such a situation from occurring, work management by on-site managers and labor unions is indispensable. However, on-site managers did not carry out the management of safety and health. Consequently, the solution was to rely on skilled workers. (4) These historical facts indicate that the development of personnel and labor management systems played an important role in ensuring the safety and health of workers in the workplace.
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| Free Research Field |
経済史
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
本研究の学術的意義：経済史・経営史研究では、近年、労働者の身体や労働安全衛生に関する研究が蓄積されつつある。本研究もこうした研究潮流のなかに位置づけられるが、先行研究に対して、2つの新規性を指摘できる。（1）現場の労務管理制度と現場管理者の状況が労働安全衛生の水準に影響を与えることを明らかにした。（2）分析に際して、オーラルヒストリーの活用や元・技術者との協働による論文執筆を行った。
本研究の社会的意義：本研究は、歴史的な視点から労働者の安全衛生について留意すべきことを明らかにした。坑内に現場が散在している炭鉱のように現場を管理者が直接管理しにくい業種に関して、本研究の知見は参考になると言える。
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