Asbestos: it's human cost
University of Queensland Press - St Lucia
1986
XXII, 298 p.
asbestos ; asbestos mining ; compensation of occupational diseases ; cost of diseases ; employers liability ; environmental pollution ; health impact assessment ; history ; mortality ; unsafe practices
Asbestos
English
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"The book is the story of asbestos, a story centred on the fate of the miners of asbestos in Wittenoom in Western Autralia and at Baryulgil in New South Wale. The story of asbestos is an example of neglect, cynicism and possibilities of abuse of labour where employees go unprotected by trade unions, public scrutiny or corporate conscience.
More important, the story of asbestos is a catalogue of misery, crippling, incapacitation and, ultimately, death for those people unfortunate enough to contract asbestos-related diseases."
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