Asbestos House: The Secret History of James Hardie Industries

by Gideon Haigh

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1921215704
• ISBN13: 9781921215704
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Scribe Us
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.3" x 8.2"