Muscle and Blood: The Massive, Hidden Agony of Industrial Slaughter in America

by Rachel Scott

Book Overview

From Google Books: Editorial Review - Kirkus Reviews - A slow death is probably what you want to call it,"" said an Anaconda aluminum worker after describing his symptoms of emphysema and chlorine gas... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525161503
• ISBN13: 9780525161509
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Dutton
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A classic in its field

OK, I wrote the book, so of course I'm rating it 5*! It was nominated for a National Book Award and was picked as one of the top 100 books of the year by the American Library Association, and was a book of the month club alternate. It is a book on working conditions in the dusty trades--mines, cotton mills, and the like. One chapter is on an explosion in a munitions plant and why it happened. Another on the Sunshine Mine disaster in Idaho.There are stories about the auto industry and a beryllium refinery, aluminum reduction works, steel mills, farm workers, and rayon viscose industry, with lots of interviews from the blue collar victims. It is a snapshot in time--shortly after the passage of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1969. Have things changed since then? I'm an optimist and I hope so, but there will always be a cost to health and safety, and there will always be corporations who wish to cut costs. Who said, "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." The same can be said here. I don't know if this is a book you can "enjoy," but it's easy to read, and it will astonish you.