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Article: Asbestos Blues: Labour, Capital, Physicians, and the State in South Africa
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- African Studies Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 2003
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HEALTH AND DISEASE Jock McCulloch., Asbestos Blues: Labour, Capital, Physicians, and the State in South Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. 252 pp. Map. Photographs. Tables. Bibliography. Index. $49. 95. Cloth. $22. 95. Paper.
For much of the twentieth century, South Africa was a major producer of asbestos, especially of crocidolite and amosite, which are found in few other regions of the world. Because the mining, milling, and manufacture of asbestos were almost completely unregulated, South Africans who were exposed either in the work setting or through contamination of the environment are now plagued by a largely invisible epidemic of asbestos-related diseases. In ...