"You will know them by their trail of death": an investigation into asbestos industry, review of a Real Life documentary produced in the UK for ITN television
World Socialist Web Site - London
2004
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asbestos ; compensation of occupational diseases ; criminal liability ; employers liability ; mortality ; occupational disease ; survey
Australia ; Canada ; South Africa ; United Kingdom
Asbestos
English
Extract from the web site:
"Review of a Real Life documentary produced in the UK for ITN television.
This documentary, broadcast in August, is about corporate murder, premeditated and on a massive scale. Widows Joan Baird and Pauline Bonney listen to a haunting song about the epidemic of asbestos deaths that is an international scandal. The words of “He Fades Away” bring the heartache back. Joan lost her husband, William, seven years ago to asbestos-induced mesothelioma. Pauline's husband, John, succumbed to the same deadly form of cancer five years previously. ITN followed the quest of these two courageous women as they investigate the reasons why their loved ones had died—a journey that takes them to disused, though still contaminated, asbestos factories, and all the way to the mines in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. Wherever they travel, they uncover a trail of death. ..."
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