LaurieWebb RMIT University History Asbestos House, the Sydney based head office of James Hardie and the title of this book both recognize the pride of place that the company accorded this popular build- ing product “Fibro”, which spread across the Australian landscape from the mid- 1950s until the evidence relating to its toxicity and death-dealing properties became properly understood and accepted. Regrettably, this was a long time coming and Hardie was probably one of the last to concede the dangers of asbestos. As the author alludes to in his epilogue, however, Hardie was not alone in its culpability. It would be decades before a consensus was finally achieved, first as to the toxicity of asbestos and much later in awarding a reasonable level of financial compensation to sufferers who face a miserable death from mesothelioma, which is recognized “As the most carnivorous of cancers, as long as forty-five years can elapse between expos- ure and emergence” (p.9). The subtitle of this book “the secret history of James Hardie Industries” rec- ognizes that James Hardie was always (under the old regime) less than candid in dealing with the wealth of publicly available information that revealed asbestos as a dangerous
Book review: Asbestos House: the secret history of James Hardie Industries:Gideon Haigh Scribe Publications, Melbourne, 2006
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LaurieWebb RMIT University History Asbestos House, the Sydney based head office of James Hardie and the title of this book both recognize the pride of place that the company accorded this popular build- ing product “Fibro”, which spread across the Australian landscape from the mid- 1950s until the evidence relating to its toxicity and death-dealing properties became properly understood and accepted. Regrettably, this was a long time coming and Hardie was probably one of the last to concede the dangers of asbestos. As the author alludes to in his epilogue, however, Hardie was not alone in its culpability. It would be decades before a consensus was finally achieved, first as to the toxicity of asbestos and much later in awarding a reasonable level of financial compensation to sufferers who face a miserable death from mesothelioma, which is recognized “As the most carnivorous of cancers, as long as forty-five years can elapse between expos- ure and emergence” (p.9). The subtitle of this book “the secret history of James Hardie Industries” rec- ognizes that James Hardie was always (under the old regime) less than candid in dealing with the wealth of publicly available information that revealed asbestos as a dangerousPreview Only. This article cannot be rented because we do not currently have permission from the publisher.
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Book review: Asbestos House: the secret history of James Hardie Industries:Gideon Haigh Scribe Publications, Melbourne, 2006
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