Asbestos House (Paperback, Ed)

Founded in 1888, James Hardie Industries is one of Australia's oldest, richest and proudest corporations. And its fortunes were based on what proved to be one of the worst industrial poisons of the twentieth century: asbestos. Asbestos House, the name of the grand headquarters that Hardie built itself in 1929, tells two remarkable tales. It relates the frantic financial engineering in 2001 during which Hardie cut adrift its liabilities to sufferers of asbestos-related disease, the public and political odium that followed, and the extraordinary deal that resulted. It is also the story of how the company, forgot how, even as fibro built a nation, the asbestos fibre from which it was made condemned thousands to death. Reconstructed from hundreds of hours of interviews and thousands of pages of documentation, Asbestos House is a saga of high finance, industrial history, legal intrigue, medical breakthrough and human frailty.

General

Imprint:	Scribe Publications
Country of origin:	Australia
Release date:	October 2007
First published:	September 2008
Authors:	Gideon Haigh
Dimensions:	209 x 135 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	442
Edition:	Ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-921215-70-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > General Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Construction & heavy industry > General Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Industrial relations & safety > Occupational / industrial health & safety Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > General
LSN:	1-921215-70-4
Barcode:	9781921215704

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