‘Workplace Roulette: Gambling with cancer’ caused a massive political and media stir in Canada. The authors, based at the Occupational Health Centre for Ontario Workers (OHCOW), highlighted the reasons increasing numbers of working people find them exposed to substances, processes and environments that lead to cancer. It also provided practical guidance on prevention, including participatory research.

Matthew Firth, James Brophy and Margaret Keith. Workplace Roulette: Gambling With Cancer, Between the Lines, Revised and expanded edition, October 1997 (originally published January 1996).