Asbestos House

By Gideon Haigh

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

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.