Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution
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Book
Description
At the time when Robinson wrote this book, the largest known source of radioactive contamination of the world's environment was a government-owned nuclear plant called Sellafield, not far from Wordsworth's cottage in the Lakes District; one child in sixty was dying from leukemia in the village closest to the plant. The central question of this eloquently impassioned book is: How can a country that we persist in calling a welfare state consciously risk the lives of its people for profit?
Publication Date
1989
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
City
New York
State
NY
Award
2016 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Creative Writing
Repository Citation
Robinson , M. (1989). Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
