Research Catalog

Title

Beyond the factory gates : asbestos and health in twentieth century America / Peter Bartrip.

Author

Bartrip, P. W. J. (Peter W. J.)

Publication

London ; New York : Continuum, c2006.

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Description

252 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

• "Beyond the Factory Gates examines the issue of asbestos and health in the USA between the early 1900s 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 organized labour, the US Government, business corporations and the US Navy. Finally, beyond the factory gates avoids the one-sided, anti-business interpretations that predominate in much of the existing literature.
• It accepts that the history of asbestos is in many ways a human tragedy, but it rejects simplistic, universalized arguments that this has been a tragedy with a cast only of villains, dupes and victims."--Jacket.

Subject

• Air Pollutants, Occupational
• Asbestos
• Occupational Exposure > legislation & jurisprudence
• History, 20th Century
• Air Pollutants, Occupational > history
• Asbestos > history
• Asbestos > adverse effects
• Asbestos abatement > United States
• Asbestos industry > Health and hygiene > United States
• Asbestos industry > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States
• Asbestos > Law and legislation > United States
• Asbestos > Physiological effect
• Asbestos > adverse effects > United States
• History, 20th Century > United States
• Occupational Exposure > legislation & jurisprudence > United States
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [164]-245) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ch. 1. Emergent knowledge -- Ch. 2. Minimum requirements -- Ch. 3. Inspecting the shipyards -- Ch. 4. Fleischer, Viles, Gade and drinker -- Ch. 5. Cursory measures? -- Ch. 6. The 1950s and beyond -- Ch. 7. Asbestos and cancer -- Ch. 8. Irving J. Selikoff and the international association -- Ch. 9. New York and beyond -- Ch. 10. Proscription or precautions? -- Ch. 11. OSHA and the asbestos standard -- Ch. 12. All at sea? -- Ch. 13. Conclusion.

ISBN

0826488366 (hbk.)

OCLC

• 62133208
• SCSB-10519309

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library