Written by a world experts on the history of occupational health, this work focuses on the history of public health and safety from World War I to the present. McIvor takes us into the lived interior of the destructive history of structural violence at work. I appreciated how much care went into weaving these difficult stories together to create a national history from below and from within. It is a model of how to geographically scale-up our analysis without losing our grounding in people's lives. It represents oral history at its humanistic best.