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Beyond the Factory Gates examines the issue of asbestos and health in the USA between the early 1900's to the mid-1970s. Areas covered include the emergence of medical concern about the three fatal diseases related to asbestos (asbestosis, lung cancer and mesothelioma); the actions of the US Navy (the main consumer of asbestos-based insulation products); the response of the federal government before and after enactment of the Occupational Safety and Health Act in 1970; and the roles of organized labour and the asbestos industry.

The book provides an important insight into occupational health and its regulation in twentieth century America, and is original in several ways. First, there is no satisfactory history of asbestos, health and medicine in the USA - a major gap in the literature. Second, no previous publication has examined the asbestos issue 'beyond the factory gates' in a non-manufacturing context and explored the complex interactions between organised labour, the US Government, business corporations and the US navy. Finally, Beyond the Factory Gates avoids the one-sided, anti-business interpretations that predominate much of the existing literature. It accepts that the history of asbestos is in many ways a human tragedy, but it rejects simplistic, universalised arguments that this has been a tragedy with a cast only villains, dupes and victims.

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Title Beyond the Factory Gates: Asbestos and Health in Twentieth Century America
Author Peter Bartrip; P. W. Bartrip
Binding Hardback
Edition number 1st
Edition 1
Pages 260
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Continnuum-3PL
Publication date 2006-07-01
Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index
ISBN 9780826488367 / 0826488366
Weight 1.19 lbs (0.54 kg)
Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.63 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.60 cm)
Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
Category Medical / Nursing
Library of Congress subjects Asbestos - Law and legislation - United, Asbestos industry - Employees - Legal
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2007617660
Dewey Decimal Code 363.179

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Citations

Choice, 07/01/2006, Page 2025
Scitech Book News, 03/01/2008, Page 88

About the author

Peter Bartrip is Research Associate at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford. He has published a number of previous books on occupational health, including The Way from Dusty Death and Mirror of Medicine: History of the BMJ.

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