Chemical Hazards in a Multinational Arena

Abstract

Have you attempted suicide by going to work today? Any reader who has spent time working in a modern chemical plant will be startled to find, three times within 10 pages of a recently published book, the charge that workers in the American chemical industry place themselves at suicidal risk by their choice of employment. The book offers, as well, a radical view of the risks in the transfer of chemical technology between the U.S. and other nations. Although problems and needs for change in technology transfer surely exist, such issues now are more often resolved by measured responses that are much less harsh than revolution. But echoes of movements as diverse as the Luddites and Mao's cultural revolution in China resound throughout this unusual book, published in the U.S. by the Council on International & Public Affairs, which criticizes Western industrial development generally as exploitive, hostile, and harmful. Nothing To Lose but Our Lives: ...