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Organizing the breathless : cotton dust, southern politics & the Brown Lung Association

Title
Organizing the breathless : cotton dust, southern politics & the Brown Lung Association / Robert E. Botsch.
Author
Botsch, Robert Emil, 1947-
Publication
Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky, ©1993.

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TextUse in library RC965.C77 B68 1993Off-site

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Description
x, 228 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Brown Lung Association > History
  • Brown Lung Association
  • Brown Lung Association
  • Geschichte 1970-1993
  • Cotton manufacture > Health aspects > Southern States
  • Byssinosis > Social aspects > Southern States
  • Cotton dust > Health aspects > Southern States
  • Textile workers > Health and hygiene > Southern States
  • Cotton
  • Byssinosis > prevention & control
  • Cotton Fiber
  • Gossypium > adverse effects
  • Dust > immunology
  • Textile Industry > standards
  • cotton (fiber)
  • Cotton
  • Byssinosis > Social aspects
  • Cotton dust > Health aspects
  • Cotton manufacture > Health aspects
  • Textile workers > Health and hygiene
  • Byssinose
  • Geschichte
  • Southeastern United States
  • Southern States
  • USA > Südstaaten
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: a Southern tragedy -- Cultural and political setting -- Compensating victims and protecting workers -- Workplace risk and scientific research -- Birth of the brown lung association -- Organizational structure and life -- Noise and institutional disruption -- Textile industry response -- Suffocation.
ISBN
  • 0813118182
  • 9780813118185
LCCN
92042053
OCLC
  • ocm27106185
  • 27106185
  • SCSB-1992378
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library