No Safe Place: Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action

by Edwin J. Mikkelsen, Phil Brown, Edwin J. Brown, Phil;Mikkelsen

Book Overview

Toxic waste, contaminated water, cancer clusters-these phrases suggest deception and irresponsibility. But more significantly, they are watchwords for a growing struggle between communities, corporations, and government. In No Safe Place, sociologists, public policy professionals, and activists will learn how residents of Woburn, Massachusetts discovered a childhood leukemia cluster and eventually sued two corporate giants. Their story gives...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520212487
• ISBN13: 9780520212480
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"