In this Book
- Challenging the Chip: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry
- Book
- 2008
- Published by: Temple University Press
summary
From Silicon Valley in California to Silicon Glen in Scotland, from Silicon Island in Taiwan to Silicon Paddy in China, the social, economic, and ecological effects of the international electronics industry are widespread. The production of electronic and computer components contaminates air, land, and water around the globe. As this eye-opening book reveals, the people who suffer the consequences are largely poor, female, immigrant, and minority. Challenging the Chip is the first comprehensive examination of the impacts of electronics manufacturing on workers and local environments across the planet. Contributors to this pioneering volume include many of the world's most articulate, passionate and progressive visionaries, scholars and advocates. Here they not only document the unsustainable and often devastating practices of the global electronics industry but also chronicle creative ways in which activists, government agencies, and others have attempted to reform the industry—through resistance, persuasion, and regulation.
Table of Contents
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- Foreword: Technology Happens
- pp. ix-xii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- I. GLOBAL ELECTRONICS
- pp. 13-16
- 7. Electronics Workers in India
- pp. 83-95
- II. ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND LABOR RIGHTS
- pp. 107-110
- 25. ToxicDude.com: The Dell Campaign
- pp. 285-297
- Appendix C: Sample Shareholder Resolutions
- pp. 303-305
- Acronyms Used
- pp. 311-314
- References
- pp. 315-336
- Contributors
- pp. 339-341
Additional Information
ISBN
9781592133314
Related ISBN(s)
9781592133291, 9781592133307
MARC Record
OCLC
166422517
Pages
371
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2006