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 vast areas 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 of poor black workers.
- ISBN10 0253215412
- ISBN13 9780253215413
- Publish Date 13 June 2002
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 April 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Indiana University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 256
- Language English