{"product_id":"fighting-toxic-ignorance","title":"Fighting Toxic Ignorance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFighting Toxic Ignorance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e explores conflict over access to information regarding health hazards encountered in the US workplace during the first three-quarters of the twentieth century. \u003c\/b\u003eAlan Derickson considers risks posed by toxic chemicals and physical and biological agents of disease. By the 1970s, occupational disease was estimated to kill up to 100,000 Americans a year. Derickson unravels the social and political forces and the conflictual process that gave rise to a sustained social movement for a workers'' right to know about often-insidious threats. He argues that the decades prior to the emergence of this movement were not a dark age of victimization brought about by enforced ignorance but a time of recurrent battles over the disclosure of needed facts. Workplace warnings—informative signs, labels, and instructions—often saved lives. \u003ci\u003eFighting Toxic Ignorance\u003c\/i\u003e covers a broad range of dangerous substances, deals with a large share of the national workforce, and illuminates the many ways that activists endeavored to see that warnings reached workers, especially immigrants and workers of color.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57194708730238,"sku":"NW9781501780196","price":26.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781501780196.jpg?v=1778549349","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/fighting-toxic-ignorance","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}