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Copper stain : Asarco's legacy in El Paso / Elaine Hampton and Cynthia C. Ontiveros.
Van Pelt Library TD899.C59 H36 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hampton, Elaine M., 1948- author.
- Ontiveros, Cynthia Christina, author.
- Series:
- Environment in modern North America ; v. 1.
- The environment in modern North America series ; volume 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Asarco Inc--History.
- Asarco Inc.
- History.
- Copper mines and mining--Environmental aspects--Texas--El Paso Region--History--20th century.
- Copper mines and mining.
- Environmental justice--Texas--El Paso--History--20th century.
- Environmental justice.
- Social responsibility of business--Texas--El Paso--History--20th century.
- Social responsibility of business.
- Work environment--Texas--El Paso--History--20th century.
- Work environment.
- Copper mines and mining--Environmental aspects.
- Texas--El Paso.
- Texas--El Paso Region.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 189 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2019]
- Contents:
- Setting and participants
- From mountain to metal ingot
- A field of land mines
- Illegal hazardous waste and deception
- Disease and death
- The El Paso Smelter's pollutants
- Lead pollution and its effects in the border area
- Health effects of exposure to Smelter pollutants
- Danny Arellano and community activism
- Environmental injustice and its systemic violence
- Asarco's symbolic violence
- Research methodology.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780806161778
- 0806161779
- OCLC:
- 1048015203
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