The Killing of Karen Silkwood - Softcover

Rashke, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140061312 ISBN 13: 9780140061314

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1982

Synopsis

Relates the intriguing conspiracy case and death of Karen Silkwood, a union activist deliberately contaminated with plutonium who subsequently died in a car accident en route to delivering corporate documents to a reporter

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"Rashke's account of the massive documentation on the Silkwood case stands up to critical review. . . It will remind students of industrial relations of an earlier anti-union period, replete with examples of coercion, espionage, cover-ups, and illegal wiretapping."―Robert Sass, Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations

"Enjoy this book at a number of levels. . .It carefully reconstructs all the clues . . . It's a quick primer in legal maneuvering, as maverick attorneys challenge the corporate suits. And, finally it's the tale of one resolute but frightened young woman, fast maturing as she stares at death daily in the yellow uranium clouds that choke her workplace."―Livingston and McLean Counties Union News, June 2000.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0140061312
• ISBN 13: 9780140061314
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 407