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Why Ship Breaking is an Export for Developed Countries and an Import for those which are Underdeveloped: Asbestos Makes a Difference.

January 6, 2022

Ship breaking (scrapping) is a classic situation of developed countries (in World Systems terminology, “core states”) sucking up the good parts of technology, production, capital, and profits, while exporting the bad parts to lesser developed areas of the world (“periphery states”) willing to accept what the core countries allow, in exchange for taking risks otherwise…
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How to Research the Difficult; Ship Breaker Exposure to Asbestos

January 2, 2022

I am beginning my book project dealing with asbestos exposures arising from ship building, seafaring, and ship breaking (scrapping) that will be my focus for at least a couple of years. Fingers crossed on the detailed research and pulling it off informatively and with an interested readership. Right now, ship breaking is likely the most…
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Our One Year Anniversary

December 16, 2021

We went live with this website and blog one year ago as I was morphing from an attorney to a student of history. I could not be happier with the transition in regards to what I do on a day to day basis and the new friends and professionals with whom I get to hang…
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How Manville, N.J. Won the Johns-Manville Plant: 1913

December 9, 2021

I was playing around on eBay the other day and came across for sale a copy of Ellis Island, The Coal Mines, to the Asbestos Capital of the World which I described in my January 22, 2021 blog at https://theasbestosblog.com/?paged=5&page_id=147. This is quite a book and I never expected to see a second copy on…
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The Child’s Guide to Knowledge: 1865

September 30, 2021

Dedicated to my English friends across the pond. The Child’s Guide to Knowledge: Being a Collection of Useful and Familiar Questions and Answers on Every-Day Subjects, Adapted for Young Persons, and Arranged in the Most Simple and Easy Language, By a lady has one heck of a title. My electronic edition was published in London…
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Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: A Historian’s Dream Book. 1980

September 23, 2021

This is it, so long as you are looking for information from 1899 to 1980. The Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects authored by George Peters and Barbara Peters published in 1980 by Garland Publishing can be yours on Amazon for anywhere between $120 and $770 at https://www.amazon.com/s?k=sourcebook+on+asbestos+peters+1980&ref=nb_sb_noss or, alternatively, you may…
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Asbestos: 1830

September 18, 2021

Much of the discussion about the commercial benefits of asbestos fibers to society begin their discussion in the 1870s or 1880s. However, that is somewhat too late. For those readers who like old pictures, today you are in luck. History will take us all the way back to 1830 with Art de se préserver de…
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How to use the Internet when searching for hard to find Historical Information.

September 10, 2021

Personally, I like to begin my searches for historical asbestos information by using the Hathi Digital Trust. Many documents are available in a complete format while those protected by copyrights typically allow you to undertake more limited searches. Either way, it is worth a shot as you begin to travel down the yellow brick road…
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Manville on Asbestos: What did it know and when did it know it? An Easy way to Find Out.

September 3, 2021

Welcome to my 38th Blog since we started going down this path during December 2020. I very much appreciate all of your support, and I plan to continue my postings to educate those readers who are interested in the history of asbestos. After all, unless you understand that history, how could you hope to make…
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1941: What we Taught our Children about Asbestos

August 21, 2021

On the brink of World War II with asbestos being a critical mineral to the Allies and a problem to obtain for the Axis, one book in particular shows exactly how society viewed asbestos. Asbestos, a Magic Mineral was authored by Lilian Holmes Strack in 1941 as a primer for school age children. She had…
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