Asbestos House

By Gideon Haigh

Subjects: Biography, Asbestos industry, Asbestos abatement, Building materials industry, Business and economics, Toxicology, Health aspects, History, James Hardie Industries, Asbestos

Description: Founded in 1888, James Hardie Industries is one of Australia's oldest, richest and proudest corporations. However its fortunes were based on what proved to be one of the worst industrial poisons of the twentieth century: asbestos.