Haigh, Gideon

Asbestos house : the secret history of James Hardie industries Gideon Haigh - Carlton North, Vic. : Scribe Publications, c2007. - 442 p. ; 21 cm.

Previous edition 2006. Includes index.



Founded in 1888, James Hardie Industries is one of Australia's oldest, richest and proudest corporations. However its fortunes were based on what proved to be one of the worst industrial poisons of the twentieth century: asbestos.

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Asbestos industry--Australia--Health aspects
Building materials industry--Australia--History
Asbestos--Australia--Toxicology
Asbestos abatement--Australia

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