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Silent Spill: The Organization of an Industrial Crisis.(Book Review)
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Administrative Science Quarterly
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March 1, 2003
- Author:
- Lounsbury, Michael
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2003 Cornell University, Johnson Graduate School. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Thomas D. Beamish. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002. 232 pp. $21.95.
Silent Spill provides a penetrating account of how environmental problems are socially organized, investigating how Unocal oil field leakages and spills in the Guadalupe Dunes in California over four decades eventually became recognized as a catastrophe. By some estimates, this oil spill is the largest on record, even larger than that of the Exxon Valdez in Alaska. Through a combination of historical analysis and fieldwork, Beamish focuses on the social structural dynamics that shaped perceptions about the nature of the problem. The central villain in the story is the Unocal Corporation, which ...
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Silent Spill: The Organization of an Industrial Crisis
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spill
The Oxford American College Dictionary;
357 words
...spill 1 / spil / • v. ( past and past part. spilled or spilt...over the edge of its container, esp. unintentionally: you'll spill that coffee if you're not careful | figurative azaleas spilled...people) move out of somewhere quickly: students began to spill out of the building. ∎ ...
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