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Song of the Canary*

• 1978 ----- color ----- 57 min ----- 16mm/vhs
• Most Americans think of their jobs as safe. Yet each year 100,000 die from occupational diseases--cancer, radiation, lung disease, sterility. Song of the Canary is the powerful human story behind the headlines. At a California chemical plant, the filmmakers uncover a national scandal that rocked the chemical industry: workers have become sterile from handling a powerful farm pesticide. In the Carolinas, cotton mill workers weak with "brown lung" disease battle mill companies and government bureaucracy for compensation and safer working conditions. Presents an engrossing and timely examination of a problem that confronts millions of Americans each working day. (Restricted to use by institutions of Higher Education in Washington state only)
• Topics: (Environmental Studies, Industry, Labor Relations)

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