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Dependent Industrialization and Political Protest: Raybestos Manhattan in Ireland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2019

Susan Baker
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Government and Opposition , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , 01 July 1987 , pp. 352 - 358
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1987

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* I would like to thank the various groups who allowed me access to their files and literature thus making this research politics. An earlier version of this study was presented to the Workshop on ‘The Politics of Industrial Subsidization’ held at the European Consortium for Political Research Joint Sessions of Workshops in Barcelona, 1985.

1 The (First) Programme for Economic Expansion, Dublin, Stationery Office, 1958, Prl. 4796.

2 The process whereby the new policy was legitimized was a complex one. For an analysis of this sec Baker, S., ‘Nationalist Ideology and The Industrial Policy of Fianna Fáil 1955-1972’, Irish Political Studies, 1, 1986, pp. 57-66.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 J. Wickham, ‘Dependency and State Structures: Foreign Firms and Industrial Policy in the Republic of Ireland’, in Otmar Holl (ed.), Small State in Europe and Dependence, The Luxemburg Papers, Vienna, Austrian Institute for International Affairs, 1983, pp, 164–83.

4 1976 Annual Report, Raybestos Manhattan Inc., Trumbull, Ct., 1977 as quoted in B. Castleman, ‘The Export of Hazardous Factories to Developing Nations’, International Journal of Health Services, Vol. 9 no. 4. 1979, p. 753.

5 They were: Barndon Valley Protection Associstion (BVPA); Cork Anti-Nuclear Group (CAN); Curk Noxious Industry Action Group (CNIAG); Dublin Anti-Racliation and Toxic Industry Action Group (DARTAG); Dublin Toxic Industry Action Group (DTIAC) Newspaper: Toxic Times; Finglas against Toxic Waste Committee (FATWC); Friends of the Earth (FOE); Rylane Action Group (RAG); STOP; An Taisce; Research Action Group Newspaper: Red Herring; Revolutionary Struggle (RS) Newspaper: Rebel.

6 They were: Crosshaven Residents’ Association (CRA); Midleton and Saleem Anti Raw Committee (MSARSC); Monster Anti Pollution Committee (MAPC); Nohoval and District Residents Association (NDRA); Ovens Residents’ Associirion (ORA); Ringaskiddy Residents* Association (RRA).

7 Rebel, the newspaper of Revolutionary Struggle, no. 25. 30 April 1980. p.5.

8 The Irish Times, 29 May 1980.

9 See ibid., 29 May 1980 and 26 October 1980, as well as Rebel nos. 25-26 for information on these events.