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Study of cancer in IBM employees finally published

Results show increased health risk for computer factory workers.

A paper suggesting that IBM factory workers are at higher risk of contracting cancer has been published after more than two years of controversy and a court battle.

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Posted by Helen Pearson on October 19, 2006 06:27 PM |

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This is an important, long-supressed analysis and story. For a useful, up-to-date review of research on occupational health and semiconductor manufacturing, see Joseph LaDou's chapter on "Occupational Health in the Semiconductor Industry" in the recently published volume, Challenging the Chip: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006), URL: http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1788_reg.html .

Posted by: DA Sonnenfeld | October 20, 2006 12:31 PM

I think it doesn't matter
because I am a worker in IBM in China

Posted by: sunny | October 21, 2006 03:20 PM

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