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Fighting Toxic Ignorance Origins Of The Right To Know About

Af: Alan Derickson
Kategori: History & military
Kategori nr.: 9210
Varenr.: 3284384
| Stregkode: 9781501780189
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Fighting Toxic Ignorance explores conflict over access to information regarding health hazards encountered in the US workplace during the first three-quarters of the twentieth century. Alan Derickson considers risks posed by toxic chemicals and physical and biological agents of disease. By the 1970s, occupational disease was estimated to kill up to 100,000 Americans a year. Derickson unravels the social and political forces and the conflictual process that gave rise to a sustained social movement for a workers' right to know about often-insidious threats. He argues that the decades prior to the emergence of this movement were not a dark age of victimization brought about by enforced ignorance but a time of recurrent battles over the disclosure of needed facts. Workplace warnings—informative signs, labels, and instructions—often saved lives. Fighting Toxic Ignorance covers a broad range of dangerous substances, deals with a large share of the national workforce, and illuminates the many ways that activists endeavored to see that warnings reached workers, especially immigrants and workers of color.

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  • EAN
    9781501780189
  • Vægt
    0 g
  • Disponent
    Direkte titel
  • Forfatter
    Alan Derickson
  • Forlag
    ILR Press
  • ISBN
    9781501780189
  • Sprog
    Engelsk
  • Sideantal
    222
  • Udgivelsesdato
  • Format
    HARDBACK
  • Themakode
    NHTB, HBTB, JBFN, MBN, JFFH, MBN
  • Kategori
    History & military
  • Kategori nr
    9210
  • Lev. varenr.
    1501