Researching asbestos history is difficult — lots of mistakes (especially about the science), experts and attorneys with private data/document silos, significant paywalls to get articles, inconsistent claims trying to reconcile studies that have been undertaken in the Global South to those using the countries of the Global North, and on and on and on. This…
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Below is a table listing all of my asbestos-related blogs from December 2020 to the present including the titles, dates, and hot links. Interestingly, my summary blogs are among my most popular. Happy Holidays to all. Thank you. Marty Blog Title Date Blog Location 1 Asbestos, a Magic Mineral Dec 16, 2020 https://theasbestosblog.com/?p=619 2 A…
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One of the more difficult jobs for Mesothelioma sufferers, attorneys, shipbreakers, and others participating in “Industries Behind the Ship,” is to sort out when and where asbestos components were located. To help you, The Book of the Ship from 1949 is a good starting place. The book doesn’t focus on asbestos but, rather on ship…
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Most of my lawyer friends know this story, but I am not sure about others. So, lets begin with the participants. On September 12, 1966, E. A. Martin, was a Director of Purchases for the Bendix Friction Material Division stationed in Troy, New York. Noel Hendry, at the same time, was employed at “Canadian Johns…
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I found a copy of Sweet’s 1906 Indexed Catalogue of Building Construction on EBay. This is 760 page compilation of catalogs for building construction was created by architects to overcome the challenges of staying current with the capability of particular products. As such, if you want to database the likely use of asbestos in construction…
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Although I have discussed this issue in the past, I don’t recall grounding it from an historical document. In summary, many of the immigrants from Ellis Island originally worked in the coal mines. They later migrated to work in the Manville asbestos factory to escape those coal mines. As stated by Edward J. Purzycki in…
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As many of you know, I have my oral defense of my three theses on October 4th and am working to be fully prepared and ready to go. When done, I start looking at PhD programs in history related to toxic minerals in the workplace. Looking at my blogs, I really messed up not doing…
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My weekly asbestos blogs since December 2020 are as follows including topic, date, and live link. Marty Blog Title Date Blog Location 1 Asbestos, a Magic Mineral Dec 16, 2020 https://theasbestosblog.com/?p=619 2 A Short History Lesson Dec 16, 2020 https://theasbestosblog.com/?p=621 3 Asbestos Companies Behaving Badly Dec 28, 2020 https://theasbestosblog.com/?p=744 4 A Call to Arms Jan…
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This week, we continue our discussion about the 1930 book written as part of the McGill University Economic Studies titled National Problems of Canada: The Asbestos Industry of Canada authored by M. M. Mendels. This blog focusing on two issues: the Forest Fires which led to the discovery of asbestos en mass in Canada and what the…
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The 1930 book written as part of the McGill University Economic Studies entitled National Problems of Canada: The Asbestos Industry of Canada authored by M. M. Mendels is quite a domino of information not readily available elsewhere. That is, a historian’s dream. I purchased a copy on EBay and am not able to locate an…
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