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Asbestos House by Gideon Haigh - 2006

Asbestos House: The Secret History of James Hardie Industries

by Gideon Haigh

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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 the frantic financial engineering in 2001 during which Hardie cut adrift its liabilities to sufferers of asbestos-related disease, the public and political odium that followed, and the extraordinary deal that resulted. It is also the story that the company, knowingly and unknowingly, forgot how even as fibro built a nation, the asbestos fibre from which it was made condemned thousands to death.

Reconstructed from hundreds of hours of interviews and thousands of pages of documentation, Asbestos House is a saga of high finance, industrial history, legal intrigue, medical breakthrough and human frailty.
  • Bookseller DASHbooks AU (AU)
  • Format/Binding Softcover
  • Book Condition Used - Good
  • ISBN 10 1920769625
  • ISBN 13 9781920769628
  • Publisher Scribe Publications Pty Ltd
  • Place of Publication Carlton North
  • Date Published 2006
  • Keywords gideon haigh, asbestos, house, secret, history, james hardie, industries, poisons, asbestos, engineering, disease, political, death, human, frailty, legal, intrigue, industrial, biography, historical, social,

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Scribe Publications, Australia, 2006. First Trade. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Trade Paperback. 442 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Scribe Publications, Australia, 2006. First Trade. *** CONDITION: This book is in near fine condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing or wear. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are lightly tanned. This book is an unread copy. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Reconstructed from hundreds of hours of interviews and thousands of pages of documentation, this reference focuses on one of Austalia's oldest and proudest corporations, Hardie, retelling the story of one of the worst industrial poisons of the 20th century, asbestos. This compelling narrative relates the frantic financial engineering in 2001, during which Hardie cut adrift its liabilities to sufferers of asbestos-related disease, the public and political odium that followed, and the extraordinary deal that resulted. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Business, Finance & Marketing; ISBN: 1920769625. ISBN/EAN:… Read More
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