Silent Spill: The Organization of an Industrial Crisis

by Thomas D. Beamish

Book Overview

In the Guadalupe Dunes, 170 miles north of Los Angeles and 250 miles south of San Francisco, an oil spill persisted unattended for 38 years. Over the period 1990-1996, the national press devoted 504 stories to the Exxon Valdez accident and a mere nine to the Guadalupe spill--even though the latter is most likely the nation's largest recorded oil spill. Although it was known to oil workers in the field where it originated, to visiting regulators, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262523205
• ISBN13: 9780262523202
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher