{"product_id":"fighting-toxic-ignorance-alan-derickson-9781501780189","title":"Fighting Toxic Ignorance: Origins of the Right to Know about Workplace Health Hazards","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alan Derickson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501780182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501780189\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e ILR Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Alan Derickson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46602666115327,"sku":"9781501780189","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_92aa4d06-67e5-487e-b0e8-e0565eaadbd7.jpg?v=1739694941","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fighting-toxic-ignorance-alan-derickson-9781501780189","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}