A Town Called Asbestos: Environmental Contamination, Health, and Resilience in a Resource Community
- Submitting institution
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Leeds Beckett University
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- VanHorssen1
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- UBC Press
- ISBN
- 9780774828413
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- A Town Called Asbestos is the first book-length environmental history of the asbestos mine and town in Quebec. By drawing extensively on unpublished company archives as well as contemporary published texts, it argues that the mine’s American owners placed profits before the health and wellbeing of its employees and the local community, in the face of mounting evidence about its deleterious effects. The 1949 strike of asbestos workers is examined for its impact on the community’s awareness and resilience as knowledge of the damaging medical impact of asbestos became more widespread.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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