Labour History

Endnotes

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5.Martin Cherniak, The Hawk’s Nest Incident: America’s Worst Industrial Disaster,Yale University Press,, 1986. Also seeDavid Rosner andGerald Markowitz, Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in Twentieth-Century America,Princeton University Press,, 1991;Elaine Katz, The White Death: Silicosis on the Witwatersrand Gold Mines: 1886-1910,,Johannesburg, 1994. Google Scholar

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