Cancer in blue-collar workers (about 1 mil. women/breast cancer)

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http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/1837


About 1 million women, according to the Cancer Prevention Coalition, work in industries that expose them to more than 50 carcinogens linked to breast cancer.

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“At least one in every 10 cancers—and probably many more—is the result of preventable, predictable workplace exposures,” according to Occupational Cancer/Zero Cancer: Union Guide to Prevention.

The prospects for justice for blue-collar workers who develop cancer from workplace exposure to carcinogenic chemicals are dismal even though the problem is pressing. “There is an undeniable correlation between employment in lower-status, lower-social-class jobs and an increased risk of developing a work-related cancer,” according to Matthew Firth, James Brophy and Margaret Keith in Workplace Roulette: Gambling with Cancer (Toronto: Between the Lines, 1997).

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“The political landscape,” the book says, “is dominated by powerful, multinational business interests that are demanding governments loosen regulations that control toxic exposure in the workplace. . . . he irrational nature of our economic system is becoming more apparent. How can an economy capable of producing all the goods and services imaginable be unable to eradicate a disease that is almost totally preventable?”
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the Barons continue to rule