Asbestos House

Asbestos House
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Total Pages : 460
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015064684015
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Book Synopsis Asbestos House by : Gideon Haigh

Download or read book Asbestos House written by Gideon Haigh and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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