Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State and Nuclear Pollution

At the time when Robinson wrote this book, the largest known source of radioactive contamination of the world's environment was a government-owned nuclear plant called Sellafield, not far from Wordsworth's cottage in the Lakes District; one child in sixty was dying from leukemia in the village closest to the plant. The central question of this eloquently impassioned book is: How can a country that we persist in calling a welfare state consciously risk the lives of its people for profit.

Mother Country is a 1989 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 12/19/1989
ISBN: 9780374526597
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80d