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Chapter 11 and Asbestos: Encouraging Private Enterprise or Conspiring to Avoid Liability? by Tweedale, Geoffrey, Warren, Richard

“…This paper explores the American bankruptcy system - especially the Chapter 11 code - which since 1978 has allowed insolvent companies the opportunity to…”
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Jock McCulloch (1945–2018): A Tribute by Tweedale, Geoffrey, Castleman, Barry

“…Jock William McCulloch, who died at Melbourne, Australia, in January 2018, was one of the foremost historians of occupational health of his generation. This…”
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Backstreet capitalism: An analysis of the family firm in the nineteenth-century Sheffield cutlery industry by Tweedale, Geoffrey

“…Drawing upon a database compiled using digital sources, this article explores the development and characteristics of over 1000 Sheffield cutlery enterprises…”
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‘A Chequered (and Mated) Scientific Career’: Robert Case and the Politics of Occupational Bladder Cancer by Higgins, David, Tweedale, Geoffrey

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Asbestos and its lethal legacy by Tweedale, Geoffrey

“…Asbestos has become the leading cause of occupationally related cancer death, and the second most fatal manufactured carcinogen (after tobacco). In the…”
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Hero or villain?--Sir Richard Doll and occupational cancer by Tweedale, Geoffrey

“…In 2006, the English media broke the story that Sir Richard Doll had for many years been retained on a secret consultancy by Monsanto. Doll's colleagues rushed…”
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The Rochdale asbestos cancer studies and the politics of epidemiology: what you see depends on where you sit by Tweedale, Geoffrey

“…The history of the exploitation of epidemiology by the U.K. asbestos industry and the subsequent obscuring of the disastrous results of exposures is presented,…”
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Turning the Tide: The Struggle for Compensation for Asbestos-Related Diseases and the Banning of Asbestos by Barry Castleman, Geoffrey Tweedale

“…Asbestos—a mineral once used for fireproofing and insulation, and still used in some parts of the world for building products—can cause potentially fatal…”
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Anthony J. Lanza, Silicosis and the Gauley Bridge 'Nine' by McCulloch, J., Tweedale, G.

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Alfred D.  Chandler, Jr. Shaping the Industrial Century: The Remarkable Story of the Evolution of the Modern Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries . (Harvard Studies in Business History, 46.) viii + 366 pp., tables, index. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. $29.95 (cloth) by Tweedale, Geoffrey

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Science is not Sufficient: Irving J. Selikoff and the Asbestos Tragedy by McCulloch, Jock, Tweedale, Geoffrey

“…Professor Irving J. Selikoff (1915–1992) was America's foremost medical expert on asbestos-related diseases between the 1960s and early 1990s. He was also well…”
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SHOOTING THE MESSENGER: THE VILIFICATION OF IRVING J. SELIKOFF by McCulloch, Jock, Tweedale, Geoffrey

“…Dr. Irving J. Selikoff (1915-1992), a New York physician based at Mount Sinai Hospital, was the leading American medical expert on asbestos-related diseases…”
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Piercing the Corporate Veil: Cape Industries and Multinational Corporate Liability for a Toxic Hazard, 1950–2004 by Tweedale, Geoffrey, Flynn, Laurie

“…The ‘corporate veil’ refers to the separation of legal identity between parent firms and their subsidiaries, which gives the parent protection against the…”
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Piercing the Corporate Veil: Cape Industries and Multinational Corporate Liability for a Toxic Hazard, 1950–2004 by Tweedale, Geoffrey, Flynn, Laurie

“…The ‘corporate veil’ refers to the separation of legal identity between parent firms and their subsidiaries, which gives the parent protection against the…”
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Oil on the water: Government regulation of a carcinogen in the twentieth-century Lancashire cotton spinning industry by Higgins, David, Tweedale, Geoffrey

“…In the Lancashire cotton textile industry, mule spinners were prone to a chronic and sometimes fatal skin cancer (often affecting the groin). The disease had…”
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The politics of environmental health policy: double standards: the multinational asbestos industry and asbestos-related disease in South Africa by McCulloch, Jock, Tweedale, Geoffrey

“…This study documents and contrasts the development of knowledge about asbestos-related disease (ARD) in South Africa and the United Kingdom. It also…”
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Industrial Espionage and Technology Transfer: Britain and France in the Eighteenth Century . J. R. Harris by Tweedale, Geoffrey

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Chrysophiles versus Chrysophobes: The White Asbestos Controversy, 1950s–2004 by Tweedale, Geoffrey, McCulloch, Jock

“…In the first half of the twentieth century, asbestos was a controversial mineral because of its association with asbestosis and asbestos‐related lung cancer…”
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Science or public relations?: The inside story of the Asbestosis Research Council, 1957-1990 by Tweedale, Geoffrey

“…In 1957, the leading British asbestos companies (Turner & Newall, Cape Asbestos, and British Belting & Asbestos) founded the Asbestosis Research Council (ARC)…”
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Mondays without Dread: The Trade Union Response to Byssinosis in the Lancashire Cotton Industry in the Twentieth Century by Bowden, Sue, Tweedale, Geoffrey

“…Trade unions have often been criticized for their failure to address occupational health issues. This article explores their response to byssinosis—a chronic…”
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