Asbestos House : the secret history of James Hardie Industries / Gideon Haigh.
Asbestos House : the secret history of James Hardie Industries / Gideon Haigh.
Asbestos House : the secret history of James Hardie Industries / Gideon Haigh.
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Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications Pty Ltd, 2006.
Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2006.
Date
2006.
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English
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1 online resource (448 pages)
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text
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computer
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online resource
Contents
About the Author; Title Page; Dedication; Copyright Page; Contents; 1 'I really thought he would want to know ...'; 2 'Let's give them to Hardie's'; 3 'The workers who breathe death'; 4 'We'll shoot the bastard!'; 5 'Pain so dreadful'; 6 'A very unpleasant and profitless war'; 7 'We don't have to wo...
15 'Canberra on steroids'16 'Wow. That's much more than I was expecting'; 17 'Possible in future not solvent'; 18 'Lots of hairs on it'; 19 'Beauty contest between warthogs'; 20 'There will be no better friend to the foundation than James Hardie'; 21 'The thing is not defensible'; 22 'I wish now tha...
29 'A class thing'Acknowledgements; Guide to sources.
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Publisher
Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications Pty Ltd, 2006.
Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2006.
Place of Publication
Victoria
Date Published
2006.
2006.
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Summary
Founded in 1888, James Hardie Industries is one of Australia's oldest, richest and proudest corporations. And its fortunes were based on what proved to be one of the worst industrial poisons of the twentieth century: asbestos. Asbestos House, the name of the grand headquarters that Hardie built itself in 1929, tells two remarkable tales. It relates...
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Asbestos House : the secret history of James Hardie Industries / Gideon Haigh.
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Print version Haigh, Gideon Asbestos House : the secret history of James Hardie Industries Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications Pty Ltd,c2006 9781921215704
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Winner, Blake Dawson Waldron Prize for Business Literature., 2007, Winner, Queensland Premier's Literary Award for a literary or media work advancing public debate, 2006, Winner, Westfield/Waverley Library Award for Literature, 2006, Winner, Gleebooks Prize, NSW Premier's Literary Awards.
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74VKam6MQv0X
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKam6MQv0X
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9781925113457 EPUB :
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338.1092345
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991024332548502626
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National edeposit: Onsite at State Library of New South Wales
