Fighting Toxic Ignorance - Origins of the Right to Know About Workplace Health Hazards - Alan Derickson - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press -

Description

Explores conflict over access to information regarding health hazards encountered in the US workplace during the first three-quarters of the twentieth century. It covers a broad range of dangerous substances, deals with a large share of the national workforce, and illuminates the many ways that activists endeavored to see that warnings reached workers, especially immigrants and workers of color.