Sellers, Christopher C. (Editor)
Melling, Joseph (Editor)
Temple University Press
Publication date: 2012
Language: English
Physical Details: x + 218 pp.; ill.; maps; index; bibl.
From anthrax to asbestos to pesticides, industrial toxins and pollutants have troubled the world for the past century and longer. Environmental hazards from industry remain one of the world's foremost killers. Dangerous Trade establishes historical groundwork for a better understanding of how and why these hazards continue to threaten our shrinking world. In this timely collection, an international group of scholars casts a rigorous eye towards efforts to combat these ailments. Dangerous Trade contains a wide range of case studies that illuminate transnational movements of risk---from the colonial plantations of Indonesia to compensation laws in late 19th century Britain, and from the occupational medicine clinics of 1960s New York City to the burning of electronic waste in early twenty-first century Uruguay.The essays in Dangerous Trade provide an unprecedented broad perspective of the dangers stirred up by industrial activity across the globe, as well as the voices raised to remedy them.
...MoreDescription Contents:
Review Rosner, David (2012) Review of "Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 676-677).
Chapter Kaur, Amarjit (2012) Rubber Plantation Workers, Work Hazards, and Health in Colonial Malaya, 1900--1940. In: Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World (p. 17).
Chapter Santiago, Myrna (2012) Work, Home, and Natural Environments: Health and Safety in the Mexican Oil Industry, 1900--1938. In: Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World (p. 33).
Chapter Menendez-Navarro, Alfredo (2012) Global Markets and Local Conflicts in Mercury Mining: Industrial Restructuring and Workplace Hazards at the Almaden Mines in the Early-Twentieth Century. In: Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World (p. 47).
Chapter Carter, Tim; Melling, Joseph (2012) Trade, Spores, and the Culture of Disease: Attempts to Regulate Anthrax in Britain and Its International Trade, 1875--1930. In: Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World (p. 60).
Chapter Blanc, Paul D. (2012) Rayon, Carbon Disulfide, and the Emergence of the Multinational Corporation in Occupational Disease. In: Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World (p. 73).
Chapter Zalik, Anna (2012) Shipping the “Next Prize”: The Trade in Liquefied Natural Gas from Nigeria to Mexico. In: Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World (p. 87).
Chapter Renfrew, Daniel E. (2012) New Hazards and Old Disease: Lead Contamination and the Uruguayan Battery Industry. In: Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World (p. 99).
Chapter Melling, Joseph; Sellers, Christopher (2012) Objective Collectives? Transnationalism and “Invisible College”s in Occupational and Environmental Health from Collis to Selikoff. In: Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World (p. 113).
Chapter Barca, Stefania (2012) Bread and Poison: The Story of Labor Environmentalism in Italy, 1968--1998. In: Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World (p. 126).
Chapter Henry, Emmanuel (2012) A New Environmental Turn? How the Environment Came to the Rescue of Occupational Health: Asbestos in France c. 1970--1995. In: Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World (p. 140).
Chapter Allen, Barbara (2012) A Tale of Two Lawsuits: Making Policy-Relevant Environmental Health Knowledge in Italian and U.S. Chemical Regions. In: Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World (p. 154).
Chapter Bohme, Susanna Rankin (2012) Pesticide Regulation, Citizen Action, and Toxic Trade: The Role of the Nation-State in the Transnational History of DBCP. In: Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World (p. 168).
Chapter Castleman, Barry; Tweedale, Geoffrey (2012) Turning the Tide: The Struggle for Compensation for Asbestos-Related Diseases and the Banning of Asbestos. In: Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World (p. 181).
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