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Author:

Botsch, Robert Emil, 1947-

Title:

Organizing the breathless : cotton dust, southern politics & the Brown Lung Association / Robert E. Botsch.

Publisher:

University Press of Kentucky,

Copyright Date:

c1993

Description:

x, 228 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Brown Lung Association--History.
Brown Lung Association.
Byssinosis--Social aspects--Southern States.
Cotton dust--Health aspects--Southern States.
Cotton manufacture--Health aspects--Southern States.
Textile workers--Health and hygiene--Southern States.
Byssinosis--prevention & control--Southeastern United States.
Cotton--adverse effects.
Dust--adverse effects.
Textile Industry--standards--Southeastern United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-220) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: a Southern tragedy -- Cultural and political setting -- Compensating victims and protecting workers -- Workplace risk and scientific research -- Birth of the brown lung association -- Organizational structure and life -- Noise and institutional disruption -- Textile industry response -- Suffocation.

ISBN:

9780813118185 (alk. paper)
0813118182 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)27106185

LCCN:

92042053

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)