Compensating asbestos victims : law and the dark side of industrialization

Compensating asbestos victims : law and the dark side of industrialization / by Andrea Boggio.

This book traces the emergence and transformations of asbestos compensation to explore the wider issue of to what extent legal systems have converged in the era of globalization. With material gathered from 50 interviews and from primary and secondary sources, the author considers law as a cultural...

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Main Author: Boggio, Andrea
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2013.
Subjects:
Asbestos > Law and legislation.
Compensation (Law)
Products liability > Asbestos.
Asbestosis.
Toxic torts.
Asbestos > Law and legislation
Asbestosis
Products liability > Asbestos
Toxic torts
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Acts; List of Cases; Preface; 1 Asbestos disease and compensation; 2 Asbestos compensation in Belgium; 3 Asbestos compensation in England; 4 Asbestos compensation in Italy; 5 Asbestos compensation in the United States; 6 Asbestos firms and their liabilities; 7 Asbestos compensation as a set of cultural responses to the dark side of industrialization; Bibliography; Index.

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