Jim Morris is managing editor for environment and workers' rights at the Center for Public Integrity. A journalist since 1978, Morris has won more than 80 awards for his work, including the George Polk Award, the Sidney Hillman Award, 3 National Association of Science Writers Awards, and 2 Edward R. Murrow Awards. Morris's 2014 series "Big Oil, Bad Air," a collaboration with InsideClimate News and The Weather Channel garnered 10 national awards for its revelations about toxic air emissions from hydraulic fracturing. He helped edit the Center's first Pulitzer Prize-winning project, "Breathless and Burdened," a 2013 investigation into the deeply flawed federal black-lung benefits system for coal miners. Follow him on Twitter (@jimgmorris).
“A devastating and thorough critique of corporate greed, deception,
and lack of concern for worker health.”
—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
“Heartbreaking and infuriating, Morris’ storytelling jars the
reader out of complacency. With luck, The Cancer Factory can also
be an instrument for change.”
—BookPage, Starred Review
“A powerful indictment of corporate greed and regulatory laxity and
a moving commentary on its human costs.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Morris’s chronicle vividly reveals the dangers of cancer, birth
defects, and other health complications in chemical factories while
holding out hope for change for the better in spite of polarized
politics and corporate influence.”
—Booklist
“Heartbreaking and infuriating, Morris’ storytelling jars the
reader out of complacency. With luck, The Cancer Factory can also
be an instrument for change.”
—Deborah Mason, BookPage
“The lack of response to known problems is the shock of The Cancer
Factory. Morris...skillfully weaves together voices of
cross-generational workers, their families, and their advocates,
never sugarcoating the harrowing details of factory conditions or
the painful consequences of urethral tests and cancer
treatments.”
—Anna Young, Harvard Public Health
“Morris’s book offers a chilling account of alleged corporate
negligence, emphasizing the need for continuous vigilance to
protect workers’ health and safety. It is a wakeup call for
professionals in the field, urging them to remain steadfast in
their pursuit of a safer working environment for all.”
—Shane Mercer, Canadian Occupational Safety
“No journalist knows more about toxic chemicals in the workplace
than Jim Morris. The Cancer Factory is the crowning achievement of
his estimable career spent walking fence lines, factory floors, and
doctor’s offices. By the time you’ve finished it, you will not only
know why manufacturers and the government have failed abjectly to
protect workers; you will also understand the terrible consequences
of their neglect.”
—Dan Fagin, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Toms River
“The Cancer Factory could not come at a better time, as we reckon
with how our bodies pay the price for our nation’s toxic history
and as today’s workers fight not for only their rights but for
their very lives. In telling the breathtaking story of the Goodyear
workers, Jim Morris writes with passion, precision, and moral
clarity. He shows how the devastation in Niagara Falls is part of a
much larger systemic failure to value people over profits—and what
it will take to create a more just future. A powerful and essential
read.”
—Anna Clark, author of The Poisoned City
“Veteran journalist Jim Morris has written a must-read chronicle of
how DuPont and other chemical manufacturers conceal information
about the hazards of the chemicals they manufacture, then deny
responsibility when exposure to their products destroys lives and
devastates families. It is a terrific book.”
—David Michaels, former head of the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration and author of The Triumph of Doubt
“The Cancer Factory is the book Jim Morris was meant to write, the
culmination of decades of dogged reporting on the slow-motion
disaster of occupational disease. Morris deftly weaves together a
shameful history of corporate deception, regulatory failures, and
political cowardice with an intimate accounting of the devastating
consequences for workers. He writes with restrained outrage of the
damning evidence he has unearthed and with deep empathy for the
mechanics, technicians, stonecutters, lawyers, physicians, and
scientists pressing for justice. By illuminating a dark corner of
American industry—one that receives far too little attention, even
as laborers continue to die from long-known hazards while facing an
onslaught of novel poisons—Morris has done a great public
service.”
—Chris Hamby, Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter for the
New York Times and author of Soul Full of Coal Dust
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