Abstract
Martin Cherniack. The Hawk's Nest Incident: America's Worst Industrial Disaster. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. x + 194 pp. Illus. David DeKok. Unseen Danger: A Tragedy of People, Government, and the Centralia Mine Fire. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986. xiv + 299 pp. Illus. David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz, eds. Dying for Work: Workers' Safety and Health in Twentieth-Century America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987. xx + 234 pp. Occupational and environmental health are specialized areas for American his- tory, with their own tales of great tragedies in which hundreds of workers or residents are killed in a fire or by exposure to a toxic chemical or hazardous waste. These are morality plays, with the public or workers exploited by corporate greed and by an unfeeling government bureaucracy, and with similar endings in which the tragedy spurs the government regulation that should have prevented the accident in the first place. The writers of these tales hope to force us to think and act now to prevent future tragedies.
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