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Workers at Risk: Voices from the Workplace Hardcover - 1984

by Dorothy Nelkin; Michael S. Brown


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Workers at Risk is a powerful and moving documentary of workers routinely exposed to toxic chemicals. Products and services we all depend on--glass bottles, computers, processed foods and fresh flowers, dry cleaning, medicines, even sculpture and silkscreened toys--are produced by workers in constant contact with more than 63,000 commercial chemicals. For many of them, the risk of death is a way of life. More than seventy of them speak here of their jobs, their health, and the difficult choices they face in coming to grips with the responsibilities, risks, fears, and satisfactions of their work. Some struggle for information and acknowledgment of their health risks; others struggle to put out of their minds the dangers they know too well. Through extensive interviews, the authors have captured in these voices that double bind of the chemical worker: If I had known that it would be that lethal, that it could give me or one of my children cancer, I would have refused to work. But it's a matter of survival and we just don't consider all these things. Meanwhile, we've got to make money to survive.

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  • Title Workers at Risk: Voices from the Workplace
  • Author Dorothy Nelkin; Michael S. Brown
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 238
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
  • Date 1984-05
  • ISBN 9780226571270 / 0226571270
  • Weight 1.12 lbs (0.51 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.26 x 6.22 x 0.77 in (23.52 x 15.80 x 1.96 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Industrial safety - United States, Industrial hygiene - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 83009319
  • Dewey Decimal Code 363.110

About the author

Dorothy Nelkin is professor in the Department of Sociology and in the Program on Science, Technology, and Society at Cornell University. She is the author of The Creation Controversy, Controversy: Politics of Technical Decisions, and Science as Intellectual Property. Michael S. Brown is research associate at the Center for the Study of Drug Development at Tufts University.
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