Main entry:

Van Horssen, Jessica, 1980- author.

Title & Author:

A Town Called Asbestos : Environmental Contamination, Health, and Resilience in a Resource Community / Jessica van Horssen ; foreword by Graeme Wynn.

Publication:

Vancouver, BC : UBC Press, [2016]
©2016

Description:

xxi, 228 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Series:

Nature, history, society

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-223) and index.
Foreword : the long dying / Graeme Wynn -- Introduction : introducing Asbestos -- Creation stories : Asbestos before 1918 -- Land with a future, not a past, 1918-49 -- Negotiating risk, 1918-49 -- Essential characteristics, 1918-49 -- Bodies collide : the strike of 1949 -- "Une ville qui se deplace," 1949-83 -- Useful tools, 1949-83 -- Altered authority, 1949-83 -- Conclusion : surviving collapse : Asbestos post-1983.

Summary:

"For decades, manufacturers from around the world relied on asbestos from the town of Asbestos, Quebec, to produce fire-retardant products. Then, over time, people learned about the mineral's devastating effects on human health. Dependent on this deadly industry for their community's survival, the residents of Asbestos developed a unique, place-based understanding of their local environment; the risks they faced living next to the giant opencast mine; and their place within the global resource trade. This book unearths the local/global tensions that defined Asbestos's proud and painful history to reveal the challenges similar resource communities have faced--and continue to face today."--Page 4 of cover.

ISBN:

9780774828413 (bound)
0774828412 (bound)
(pdf)
9780774828437
(epub)
9780774828444
0774828439
0774828447

Subject:

Asbestos mines and mining Québec (Province) Asbestos.
Asbestos mines and mining Environmental aspects Québec (Province) Asbestos.
Asbestos mines and mining Health aspects Québec (Province) Asbestos.
Asbestos industry Québec (Province) Asbestos.
Asbestos industry Political aspects Québec (Province) Asbestos.
Asbestos.
Denial (Psychology)
Environmental Exposure history
Cities economics.
Denial, Psychological
Environmental Illness psychology
History, 20th Century
Mining economics
Amiante Mines et extraction Québec (Province) Val-des-Sources.
Amiante Mines et extraction Aspect de l'environnement Québec (Province) Val-des-Sources.
Amiante Mines et extraction Aspect sanitaire Québec (Province) Val-des-Sources.
Amiante Industrie Québec (Province) Val-des-Sources.
Amiante Industrie Aspect politique Québec (Province) Val-des-Sources.
Amiante.
Dénégation (Psychologie)
Médecine Histoire 20e siècle.
asbestos.
Asbestos industry
Asbestos mines and mining
Asbestos mines and mining Environmental aspects
Economic history
Asbestos (Québec) History.
Asbestos (Québec) Economic conditions.
Quebec
Asbestos (Québec) Histoire.
Asbestos (Québec) Conditions économiques.
Québec Asbestos

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Wynn, Graeme, 1946- writer of foreword.
Nature, history, society.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 291779
Call No.: FC2949.A79 V3 2016
Notes: hbk.
Status: Available