num_pages: 272
description: 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.
language: English
title: Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution
titlecomplete: Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution
genres: Essays, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 108
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux