Asbestos blues : labour, capital, physicians & the state in South Africa
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Asbestos blues : labour, capital, physicians & the state in South Africa
（African issues）
James Currey , Indiana University Press, 2002
- : Indiana : cloth
- : James Currey : cloth
- : Indiana : pbk
- : James Currey : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-216) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: Indiana : pbk ISBN 9780253215413
Description
From the mid-1940s to the mid-1970s, blue asbestos was mined in South Africa for worldwide use. More recently, it has been identified as one of the most dangerous carcinogens to which humans can be exposed. Yet the asbestos mining industry and the South African government have been slow to respond to the health concerns of miners and to the environmental devastation, which has left vast areas of the Northern Cape permanently hazardous. In "Asbestos Blues", Jock McCulloch explores the extent to which the South African government participated in turning company profits at the expense of poor black workers.
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: Indiana : cloth ISBN 9780253341273
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From the mid-1940s to the mid-1970s, blue asbestos was mined in South Africa for worldwide use. More recently, it has been identified as one of the most dangerous carcinogens to which humans can be exposed. Yet the asbestos mining industry and the South African government have been slow to respond to the health concerns of miners and to the environmental devastation, which has left vast areas of the Northern Cape permanently hazardous. In "Asbestos Blues", Jock McCulloch explores the extent to which the South African government participated in turning company profits at the expense of poor black workers.
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: James Currey : pbk ISBN 9780852558621
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Most of the world's blue asbestos has been mined in South Africa, where industry and government have been slow to respond to environment and health issues.
Were mining and manufacturing companies, as they claimed, the victims of imperfect science and inadequate state regulation?
Since the 1930s growing evidence of the health risks was often suppressed by companies and the SouthAfrican government.
Is enough being done to clean up the environmental damage caused by the mines?
Large areas of the northern Cape have been made permanently hazardous by asbestos mining. Windborne fibre continuesto spread that hazard in an ever widening circle of risk. During 2001 the South African government allocated R100 million to clean up un-reclaimed mines, but far more will be necessary to make the landscape itself safe.
Should British companies be held responsible for the behaviour of their South African subsidiaries?
The prosperity of the asbestos industry in South Africa depended on apartheid. Company profits and the dividends paid to British shareholders were fuelled by the lowly paid and hazardous work of women and juveniles in South African mines.
JOCK MCCULLOCH is a Lecturer in the Faculty of the Constructed Environment, RMIT University, Australia
North America: Indiana University Press; South Africa: Juta
Table of Contents
A global industry - The mines - The companies - Medical history - Life on the mines - The state & asbestos - Women miners - Dust & disease - The PRU survey - Conclusion - Bibliography
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: James Currey : cloth ISBN 9780852558638
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Were mining and manufacturing companies, as they claimed, the victims of imperfect science and inadequate state regulation? Since the 1930s growing evidence of the health risks was often suppressed by companies and the South African government. - Is enough being done to clean up the environmental damage caused by the mines? Large areas of the northern Cape have been made permanently hazardous by asbestos mining. Windborne fibre continues to spread that hazard in an ever widening circle of risk. During 2001 the South African government allocated R100 million to clean up un-reclaimed mines, but far more will be necessary to make the landscape itself safe. - Should British companies be held responsible for the behaviour of their South African subsidiaries? The prosperity of the asbestos industry in South Africa depended on apartheid. Company profits and the dividends paid to British shareholders were fuelled by the lowly paid and hazardous work of women and juveniles in South African mines.
Table of Contents
A global industry - The mines - The companies - Medical history - Life on the mines - The state & asbestos - Women miners - Dust & disease - The PRU survey - Conclusion - Bibliography
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