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University of Strathclyde International Office newsletter.

In reverse chronological order. Covers national and international news on legal/regulatory change, compensation, employers’ insurance, etc.

Further includes copies of

• US Senate bill ‘Asbestos claims criteria and compensation act of 2003’
• ‘Resolution adopted by the house of delegates of the American Bar Association’ (February 2003) re ABA standard for non-malignant asbestos-related disease claims
• David Egilman (2002) ‘Conceptual issues in health policy and environmental/occupational health’
• Lawrence Waterman, Sypol for HSE (2001) ‘Proposal and scoping / specification for a feasibility study for a comprehensive occupational health scheme for all construction workers’

Correspondence and papers re application for a £43,500 grant from the Balance Charitable Foundation.

• printout of digital inventory of medical reports, A[...]-D[...], 2005, capturing case number, surname, date of medical report, author of report, diagnosis (pleural plaques, D1, D3, D8, D9)
• typescript inventory of medical reports A[...]-L[...], c.1991, capturing full name, doctor's name, date of report, summary of opinion, smoker, comments
• copy of medical glossary notes (Blesovky's syndrome, Denver shunt, fibrosis), extract from a report by Dr Robin Rudd on the risk following pleural plaques
• correspondence and papers on access to medical records and data protection
• specimen medical reports

Conversation between David Walker and Mr Brian J Watson, c. 1h 2m.

• Brian J Watson, 11 June 1934, chemical plant manager (explosives), Dumfries

Conversation between David Walker and former ICI employee 'KG', Dumfries, 25 November 2005.

• sound recording (1h 46m) and transcript

• 'KG', b. 1945, chemical process worker (plastics), Dumfries

Neil Rafeek and Hilary Young in conversation with Fife miners Colin Peebles and John Gillon, Culross, Fife, 15 January 2005.

• sound recording (23 minutes 42 seconds) and transcript

Interview C24.

Arthur McIvor in conversation with a Welsh miner, 2004x2005.

• sound recording (49 minutes 3 seconds) and transcript

No code assigned.

Conversations between Neil Rafeek and two men who spent their working lives as laggers in the Clydeside heavy industries. Topics covered include childhood and growing up in Glasgow, the Clydebank blitz, housing, domestic life, social life, football, sectarianism, gang culture, National Service, working conditions, trade unions, health and safety, asbestos.

Includes notes and draft publications relating to a project about the working culture and notions of masculinity in Clydeside heavy industries.

Printed document.

Photographs by Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert, Glasgow; George Oliver, Glasgow; Marius Alexander, Edinburgh; George Young, Gourock; Rhoda Galyn, New York; Alan D Crumlish, Glasgow; Kenny Munro; Allan Milligan; Jim Cunningham, Beith; Norman McBeath, Oxford; Noreen Flynn, Berlin; Douglas Robertson, Edinburgh; and other photographers.

Includes childhood photograph c. 1928.

Also includes 2 contact sheets, 1 letter, press cuttings and draft contents list.

Illustrated catalogue and DVD for The Cosmic Voyage: exhibition held at Collins Gallery, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 27 August-8 October 2005.