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Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World
Joseph Melling
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Description for Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World
Paperback. The first comprehensive survey of the global history of industrial hazards and their control Editor(s): Sellers, Christopher C.; Melling, Joseph. Num Pages: 214 pages, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: HBTK; RNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320.
The first comprehensive survey of the global history of industrial hazards and their control
The first comprehensive survey of the global history of industrial hazards and their control
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
Number of Pages
214
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781439904695
SKU
V9781439904695
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Joseph Melling
Christopher Sellers is an Associate Professor of History at Stony Brook University, and author of Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science. Joseph Melling is Director of the Centre for Medical History at the University of Exeter. He is the coauthor (with Bill Forsythe) of The Politics of Madness and (with Alan Booth) of Making the Modern Workplace.
Reviews for Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World
"No other work addresses industrial hazards with such geographic breadth and historical depth. Together, the essays in Dangerous Trade offer a damning indictment of capitalism's impact on working people and the environments in which they have labored and lived. Just as importantly, Dangerous Trade also makes a compelling case regarding the role of workers' movements in improving public health in and beyond the workplace. This book, in short, offers something new to a range of practitioners and academics." -Thomas Andrews, University of Colorado at Boulder "The authors' backgrounds run the gamut from anthropology to medicine, so the authors offer diverse perspectives on both the history of industrial pollution and the current state of these problems across the globe. The nations discussed range from developing countries like Malaysia, Nigeria, and Mexico to more developed nations like France, Spain, and Italy. The array of problems considered is also broad, including, for example, rubber plantations, liquefied natural gas, oil, asbestos, and mercury. This book is a fine account of some international problems in industrial health and is especially valuable for undergraduate collections that support environmental programs. Summing Up: Highly Recommended." -CHOICE "[A] compelling collection of essays that provides integral groundwork for understanding our contemporary globalized industrial hazards... These essays show the challenges confronting our contemporary globalized industrial hazard situation including scientific and lay knowledge production and the translation of resistance to regulation... Together these essays provide an important foundation for looking at industrial hazards on a larger geographic scope and through a wider interdisciplinary lens." -Environmental History