Migration and work in postwar Australia: mortality profile comparisons between Australian and Italian workers exposed to blue asbestos at Wittenoom

OBJECTIVES: Three hundred and thirty thousand Italians arrived in Australia between 1945 and 1966, many on assisted passage schemes where the worker agreed to a 2-year unskilled employment contract. Italians were the largest of 52 migrant groups employed at the Wittenoom blue asbestos mining and mil...

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Main Authors: Reid, Alison, Merler, E., Peters, S., Jayasinghe, N., Bressan, V., Franklin, P., Brims, Fraser, de Klerk, N., Musk, A.
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/55346