Workers at Risk: Voices from the Workplace

by Dorothy Nelkin and Michael S. Brown

Book Overview

Workers at Risk is a powerful and moving documentary of workers routinely exposed to toxic chemicals. Products and services we all depend on--glass bottles, computers, processed foods and fresh flowers, dry cleaning, medicines, even sculpture and silkscreened toys--are produced by workers in constant contact with more than 63,000 commercial chemicals. For many of them, the risk of death is a way of life.

More than seventy of them speak...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226571289
• ISBN13: 9780226571287
• Release Date: April 1986
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"