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Hefernon said airbound asbestos causes two deadly lung diseases, asbestosis and lung cancer. He added that EPA regulations require "an acceptable disposal site," such as a landfill area in a municipal dump...
Asbestos, the source of two deadly lung diseases asbestosis and lung cancer--is found in other University buildings as well as in pipes, DiBerardinis said...
...country's second largest textile industry, is notorious for its unethical and illegal labor practices. It pays its workers less than any other industry in the country. It combats workers' attempts to organize with blatant force or threats of dismissal. It lays off workers incapacitated with the brown lung disease contracted in the mills, refusing to provide compensation. But J.P. Stevens is not solely responsible for its workers' inability to organize against these abuses. Rise Gonna Rise argues that Stevens' workers are also prevented from organizing by their own nostalgic feelings and deference...
...RETIRED laborer, wheezing with cotton-induced brown lung disease like many retired J.P. Stevens workers, tells of her childhood visists to her parents in a Stevens plant. Since skipping through the cotton dust around the plant as a child, she had known she would work for Stevens, like everyone else in Roanoke Rapids, N.C. Although she sees Stevens as a paternal company, she condemns it for paying her less than minimum wage and then forcing her to retire because of the brown lung disease she contracted while working in their mills. Despite her bitterness, she is reluctant to fully support...
...reader with simply a sense of frustration. Stevens employees are torn between contradicting impulses of self-interest and blind sentalmentalism, their vision of a happy past and a strong faith that the future will be better. Stevens workers are bewildered, complacent, and left to die slowly with brown lung disease and blank disillusionment, but Conway doesn...