The Killing of Karen Silkwood: The Story Behind the Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case - Hardcover

Rashke, Richard L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395302331 ISBN 13: 9780395302330

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1981

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: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0395302331
• ISBN 13: 9780395302330
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 407