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...this superb book does more than represent the voices of those maimed or bereaved; it suggests that the social costs of industrial progress have never really been calculated for the poor ...It is all too easy - albeit foolish, in an age post-Robert Maxwell and other perpetrators of financial fraud - to assume that corporate crime is somehow physically harmless and that the mugging and/or assault is only metaphorical. This study demonstrates vividly that corporate lack of responsibility is anything but...Surviving Bhopal has two major strengths: its recognition of the complicity between global corporations and local elites, and the dangerous consequences of neoliberal exhortations to industrial growth in contexts without adequate, let alone rigorous, safety regulations. - Mary Evans, Times Higher Education

<p>&#8220;From the outset this superb book does more than represent the voices of those maimed or bereaved; it suggests that &#8216;the social costs of industrial progress have never really been calculated for the poor.&#8217; At the same time, the book&#8217;s latter chapters document the ways in which survivors have struggled for better futures, how affected individuals (in particular, women) have acquired new habits of resistance and autonomy, and how oral history itself can assist in the acts of both remembering and analysing the politics of the disaster. Lucid and remarkable.&#8221;&#8212; Times Higher Education <p>&#8220;Suroopa Mukherjee's important book tells how Bhopali women from one of the poorest sections of society on earth have thrown off the veil and led a spirited, inspiring resistance against corruption and injustice by a multinational corporation and its political allies.&#8221;&#8212;Indra Sinha, Author of Animal&#8217;s People, based on the Bhopal tragedy <p>&#822

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SUROOPA MUKHERJEE is a Reader in the Department of English at Hindu College, University of Delhi, India.

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