Asbestos Blues: Labour, Capital, Physicians & The State In South Africa; Author: Mcculloch, Jock; Paperback

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Asbestos Blues: Labour, Capital, Physicians & The State In South Africa

Author: Mcculloch, Jock
African Issues (Paperback); Paperback; Illustrations
256 pages
Published: November 2003
Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253215412

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 vastareas 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 ofpoor black workers. Were mining companies, manufacturers, and government regulators covering up the risks of asbestos mining? What measures are being taken to clean up the toxic environment? What is bIn 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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