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THE AUTHOR
The
author is Miquel Sanchez, born in Cerdanyola, Barcelona, in 1943, when the
town was a small farming village with three thousand people of population
and Uralita, S. A. was the main industry.
He
worked 25 years in Uralita, S. A. (1958-1983), he worked as engineer since
1968. He is doctor in History (PhD) by the “Universitat Autònoma de
Barcelona” (1993).
He
has published several books of local history (1977-2003), mainly of
Cerdanyola, his town, accompanied by some hundreds of articles in the main
magazines of the region.
Simultaneously
with the historian job, he has developed other jobs of journalistic
chronicle (1973-2003) on the pages of “Revista de Sardanyola”,
“Cerdanyola Informacions”, “Diari de Cerdanyola”, “El 9 Nou”,
“El 9 Punt” and “Tot Cerdanyola”.
Besides,
he has published more of twenty articles about the asbestosis, a
professional illness produced for inhalation of asbestos fibres.
Since
1977, he is member of “Group of Studies Les Feixes” of Cerdanyola,
dedicated to study the identity signs and the history of Cerdanyola.
Which
are reasons for this website?
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The
asbestosis illness is incurable and it also is mortal in a lot of
cases.
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By
solidarity with ill people and affected families by asbestosis.
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For
my father, who worked for 28 years in the Uralita, S. A. plant of
Cerdanyola (Barcelona), in the “Siberia section” where moulding
products were produced. He died with 86 years old with asbestosis,
never diagnosed by doctors, despite of medical reviews made by the
Company.
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I
also worked in Uralita, S. A., Cerdanyola, for 25 years and I was in
contact directly with others manufacturing sites of Getafe, Sevilla,
Quart de Poblet, Valladolid and Alcazar de San Juan, where the
asbestos-cement materials were produced.
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By
solidarity with Salvador Mañosa, the Cerdanyola’s sculptor and his
campaign to inform and denunciation of asbestosis and the occultism
practiced by the company and authorities.
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Give
to know all the information picked up since 1977 about the asbestosis
in Cerdanyola and Ripollet.
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And
mainly for everybody lower than 30 years old, who didn’t know the
dictatorship of Franco, the Uralita plant, the asbestos-cement
products and the asbestosis illness.
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And
finally to contribute to the linguistic normalization of Catalonian
language, persecuted and/or restricted by the Spanish Central
Administration. I would like to show the Internet users a website
about asbestosis written in Catalan.
Summary of author’s
books and opuscules (1977-2003)
Colection
of "Història de Cerdanyola"
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El
topònim Cerdanyola
Un estudi sobre el nom del poble (author’s
edition, Cerdanyola, 1977, 90 pages)
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La
Cerdanyola Prehistòrica i Antiga. Les
arrels de Cerdanyola
(author’s edition, Cerdanyola, 1978, 75 pages)
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Síntesi
d'Història de Cerdanyola
(author’s edition, Cerdanyola, 1979, 91 pages)
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La
Geografia de Cerdanyola i la rodalia
(author’s edition, Cerdanyola, 1980, 222 pages)
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La
Cerdanyola Medieval (717-1482) (author’s
edition, Cerdanyola, 1981, 238 pages)
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La
Cerdanyola Moderna (1492-1814) (author’s
edition, Cerdanyola, 1982, 154 pages)
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La
Cerdanyola Contemporània
(1814-1975)
(author’s edition, Cerdanyola, 1983, 330 pages)
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La
toponímia de Cerdanyola
(author’s edition, Cerdanyola, 1984, 98 pages
Others
History books and opuscules
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El
model territorial i el polígon Canaletes (edició
d’autor, Cerdanyola, September 1981,
28 pàg.)
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El
Vallès, fa mil anys
(1987)
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Orígens
històrics del Vallès (segles X-XI) (1992)
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La
Segona República i la Guerra Civil a Cerdanyola, 1931-1939
(Abadia Montserrat, 1993, 204 pages)
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Mil·lenari
de Sant Iscle de les Feixes (995-1995),
with "Sant Iscle de les Feixes:
Història d'una parròquia de muntanya (segles X-XIX)"
(Viena, 1996), pages 53-111.
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Cerdanyola
abans d’ahir.
Book
of old pictures of Cerdanyola with a preface and texts of the author. Tot
Cerdanyola.
Cerdanyola, 1997.
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Centenari
Carles Buïgas 1898-1979. La visió cerdanyolenca.
Ajuntament de Cerdanyola.
Cerdanyola, January 1999, 25 pages.
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Can
Fatjó del Molí, 1144-1987. Nou segles d’Història d’un mas de
Cerdanyola.
Parc
Tecnològic del Vallès. Cerdanyola, 1999, 88 pages.
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El
Cister: i al principi fou Valldaura. Santa Maria de Valldaura,
1150-1169. Cossetània Edicions. Valls, 2001, 61 pages.
Poetry
books
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Un
día o una vida
(author’s edition, Cerdanyola, 1982)
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Tardor
82
(author’s edition, Cerdanyola, 1982)
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30
sonetos y uno, al final del camino (author’s
edition, Cerdanyola, 1984)
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Aura
(author’s
edition, Cerdanyola, 1984)
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Encenall
d'un vertigen solitari (Petrer,
Alacant, 1992)
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Partences
(Santa Bárbara, Tarragona, 1997)
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Postals
Rosselloneses
(Perpinyà, France, 1997)
Engineering
books
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Ingeniería
del Fieltro Papelero (IPE,
Instituto Papelero Español, Madrid, 1987, 350 pages)
Hiking
books
Novels
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“Les
plomes dels galliners”, the “Molí d’en Xec” local prize,
1995, in Molí d’en Xec. Premis
de Narrativa Curta 1991-1995,
p.
305-325. Columna, Barcelona, 1996.
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“Salsa
Vallesana”, “Xarop de bastó” and “El misteri de la casa
enrunada”, in Contes
metropolitans, “Perifèrics”
Group. Editorial
Montflorit. Cerdanyola, 2001.
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