Alex Parry from the University of Rochester Medical Center presented a draft proposal for his book project Home Safe Home: Housework, Consumption, Regulation, and the Making of Home Injury Prevention, c. 1910–1980. His project charts the history of product safety and shows how accidents affected life at home. He discusses how and why Americans relied on education, markets, and engineering to control these injuries, which tended to single out domestic labor and technologies as causes of and solutions to the problem of home accidents.
Working Group, Alexander Parry
