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portada Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard Across a Globalizing World
Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard Across a Globalizing WorldDangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard Across a Globalizing WorldDangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard Across a Globalizing World
Type
Physical Book
Language
English
Pages
214
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
23.1x15.5x2 cm
Weight
0.43 kg.
ISBN
1439904685
ISBN13
9781439904688

Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard Across a Globalizing World

Sellers, Christopher ; Melling, Joseph (Author) · Temple University Press · Hardcover

Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard Across a Globalizing World - Sellers, Christopher ; Melling, Joseph

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Synopsis "Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard Across a Globalizing World"

From anthrax to asbestos to pesticides, industrial toxins and pollutants have troubled the world for the past century and longer. Environmental hazards from industry remain one of the world's foremost killers."Dangerous Trade"aestablishes historical groundwork for a better understanding of how and why these hazards continue to threaten our shrinking world.In this timely collection, an international group of scholars casts a rigorous eye towards efforts to combat these ailments.a"Dangerous Trade"acontains a wide range of case studies that illuminate transnational movements of riskOCofrom the colonial plantations of Indonesia to compensation laws in late 19th century Britain, and from the occupational medicine clinics of 1960s New York City to the burning of electronic waste in early twenty-first century Uruguay.The essays ina"Dangerous Trade"aprovide an unprecedented broad perspective of the dangers stirred up by industrial activity across the globe, as well as the voices rasied to remedy them."

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