Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in Twentieth-Century America by David Rosner
Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in Twentieth-Century America

David Rosner

Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in Twentieth-Century America

David Rosner with Gerald E. Markowitz

248 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

nonfiction health history informative slow-paced
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During the Depression, silicosis, an industrial lung disease, emerged as a national social crisis. Experts estimated that hundreds of thousands of workers were at risk of disease, disability, and death by inhaling silica in mines, foundries, and q...

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