Song of the canary

Duration: 58

Year Published: 1978

Creator: Manteca

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Examines industrial illness in America. The focus is on two locales: a chemical plant in California where workers have become sterile from manufacturing a pesticide, and the cotton mills of the Carolinas where workers have contracted brown lung disease. , Documentary about the health hazards to workers at a chemical plant in California and at cotton mills in North and South Carolina. Probes the issues of government regulation, medical research, workers' compensation and the actions of employers, unions and workers when confronted with life-threatening dangers on the job.

Complete Record: Examines industrial illness in America. The focus is on two locales: a chemical plant in California where workers have become sterile from manufacturing a pesticide, and the cotton mills of the Carolinas where workers have contracted brown lung disease. , NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.