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"Workers at Risk" is a powerful and moving documentary of workers routinely exposed to toxic chemicals. Products and services we all depend on--glass bottles, computers, processed foods and fresh flowers, dry cleaning, medicines, even sculpture and silkscreened toys--are produced by workers in constant contact with more than 63,000 commercial chemicals. For many of them, the risk of death is a way of life. More than seventy of them speak here of their jobs, their health, and the difficult choices they face in coming to grips with the responsibilities, risks, fears, and satisfactions of their work. Some struggle for information and acknowledgment of their health risks; others struggle to put out of their minds the dangers they know too well. Through extensive interviews, the authors have captured in these voices that double bind of the chemical worker: "If I had known that it would be that lethal, that it could give me or one of my children cancer, I would have refused to work. But it's a matter of survival and we just don't consider all these things. Meanwhile, we've got to make money to survive."

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Sociology

• Full title: Workers at Risk
• Subtitle: Voices from the Workplace
• Author: Dorothy Nelkin, Michael S. Brown
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248
• EAN: 9780226571270
• ID: 04547825
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 566 g
• Dimensions: 230 × 150 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. March 1984

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