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A town called Asbestos : environmental contamination, health, and resilience in a resource community / Jessica van Horssen ; foreword by Graeme Wynn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Van Horssen, Jessica, 1980- author.
- Series:
- Nature, history, society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Asbestos mines and mining--Québec (Province)--Asbestos.
- Asbestos mines and mining.
- Asbestos mines and mining--Environmental aspects--Québec (Province)--Asbestos.
- Asbestos mines and mining--Health aspects--Québec (Province)--Asbestos.
- Asbestos industry--Québec (Province)--Asbestos.
- Asbestos industry.
- Asbestos industry--Political aspects--Québec (Province)--Asbestos.
- Asbestos--adverse effects.
- Hazardous Substances--history.
- Environmental Health.
- Asbestos.
- Asbestos mines and mining--Environmental aspects.
- Asbestos (Québec).
- Asbestos (Québec)--History.
- Asbestos (Québec)--Economic conditions.
- Medical Subjects:
- Asbestos--adverse effects.
- Hazardous Substances--history.
- Environmental Health.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 228 pages : black and white illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- For decades, manufacturers from around the world relied on asbestos from the town of Asbestos, Quebec, to produce fire-retardant products. Then, over time, people learned about the mineral's devastating effects on human health. Dependent on this deadly industry for their community's survival, the residents of Asbestos developed a unique, place-based understanding of their local environment; the risks they faced living next to the giant opencast mine; and their place within the global resource trade. This book unearths the local-global tensions that defined Asbestos's proud and painful history to reveal the challenges similar resource communities have faced-and continue to face today. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Creation Stones: Asbestos before 1918 17
- 2 Land with a Future, Not a Past, 1918-49 33
- 3 Negotiating Risk, 1918-49 50
- 4 Essential Characteristics, 1918-49 73
- 5 Bodies Collide: The Strike of 1949 89
- 6 "Une ville qui se deplace," 1949-83 116
- 7 Useful Tools, 1949-83 135
- 8 Altered Authority, 1949-83 163.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-223) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780774828413
- 0774828412
- OCLC:
- 937370931
- Publisher Number:
- 40025793098
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