Prologue: A Source for Silent Spring -- White City's Ghosts -- The Progressive Allure of the Worker's Ills -- A Public and Constructive Knowledge -- A Faltering Dream of Expertise -- Pax Toxicologica -- The Environmental Turn -- Conclusion: Ordering Toxicity from the Workplace to the Environment
Summary
"Hazards of the Job explores the roots of modern environmentalism in the early-twentieth-century United States. It was in the workplace of this era, argues Christopher Sellers, that our contemporary understanding of environmental health dangers first took shape." "Sellers traces the creation of a viable industrial hygiene expertise, focused initially on lead and other poisonings among workers, alongside the controversies that it addressed and roused."--Jacket
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-315) and index
