In a Rain of Dust: Death, Deceit, and the Lawyer Who Busted Big Asbestos

For nearly 90 years, a British company called Cape used local labor to mine and mill asbestos in South Africa. Poor and mostly black men, women, and children—some as young as seven—worked every day in clouds of asbestos dust that they carried home to their families, caked onto their skin, hair, and clothes. The appalling lev...