The Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy

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Abbey, Edward, 9 Acequias, 36–37, 45, 194 Adams, Gary, 105 AFL-CIO, 66, 195, 209, 214 African Americans, 12, 37–39, 89, 99 Agricultural Exclusion Act, 70 Agricultural Assessment Law, 70 Agriculture, 17–18, 46–58, 78 Alien Land Act of 1913, 47 Alien Nation, 8 Alvarez, Sal, 63 Alviso, California, 56, 64, 70, 81 AMD (Advanced Micro Devices), 76, 110, 112, 120, 122–125, 134 American Electronics Association, 202 American Federation of Labor’s California Council of Cannery Workers, 50 American Indian Historical Society, 221 American Staffing Association, 153 Amoco, 200 Annexation wars. See Land grabs Anti-Debris Associations, 44 AOL, 216 Apple Computer, 137, 200, 202, 209 Arsenic, 106–107, 180 Asia high-technology revolution, 174 Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders, 5, 13, 20, 64–66, 89, 97, 115–116, 160. See also Immigrants Asian Immigrant Women’s Advocates (AIWA), 13, 97, 138, 165, 195, 209 Asian Workers Health Project, 174 Assembly firms, 138 cable assembly, 137–143 case study, 144–152 Assembly line hysteria, 23. See also Mass hysteria; Mass psychogenic illness Atari Corporation, 65 AT&T, 103 Bacon, David, 212 Baker, Robin, 95 Basel Action Network (BAN), 202 “Big Three, The,” 62 Bingham, Eula, 94 Bioregionalism, 8 Birth defects, 9, 94, 102–105 Blacklisting, 126 Body count, 182, 183, 191 British Journal of Industrial Medicine, 101 Browner, Carol, 204 Brundtland Commission, 196 Burke, Gary, 91 California Department of Health Services, 102 California Employment Development Department , 137 California Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Cal-OSHA), 100, 102, 132, 164, 214 California Public Interest Research Group, 56 California State Division of Labor Standards Taskforce, 161 California State Mining and Smelting Company, 34 Californios, 31 Campaign for Responsible Technology, 204, 206 Campaign to Ban TCE, 195 Campaign to End the Miscarriage of Justice , 104 Cancer, 9, 105, 109, 113–115, 118, 122, 130–131, 187 Canneries, 46–53, 56–58, 114, 193, 219. See also Agriculture Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union (CAWIU), 50 Cannery Sewage Tax, 56 295 Index Captain Andres Castillero, 34 Carbon black, 142 Carbon, Jose, 119 Carrying capacity, 8 Chavez, Celia, 139 Chavez, Cesar, 10 Chemical Manufacturers Association, 102 Chicanos/as, 52–53, 63–64, 81, 114, 120, 139, 158 Chinatown, 47 Chinese. See Immigrants, Chinese Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, 40 Chu, Flora, 115–116, 166, 174 Cipriano. See Huhuyat Cisco Systems, 162 Clean industry, 71–73, 75–76, 101–102, 104 Clean rooms, 112–113, 114, 122, 149 Clean Water Act, 56 Clinton, Bill, 72 Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economics (CERES), 205 Cold war economy, 50–61 Colonization. See Spanish Conquest Coltan, 216–217 Committees on occupational safety and Health (COSH), 104 Common Sense Initiative (CSI), 204. See also Project XL Commons system, 264 Communities for a Better Environment, 70, 75 Company doctors. See Doctors Cone, Jim, Dr., 96–97 Core occupations in high technology, 85, 112–136, 159–160, 167 Corporate control and repression, 118, 121, 126, 184–189 secrecy, 127–129, 183, 184, 188 “Corporate mortality file,” 131 Costa Rica, 181 Costanoans. See Ohlones Council on Latin American Affairs, 63 Deforestation, 32 Dell, 166, 202 Department Of Labor Standards, 164 Design for Environment (DFE), 200 Deukmejian, Governor George, 208 Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), 76, 103, 109 Digital Microwave Corporation (DMC), 210–211 Doctors company, 130, 131–132 independent, 130, 132, 133–135 Dow Chemical Company, 200 Downsizing, 2 Dustbowl, 49, 59 Earthfirst!, 9 Eco-efficiency, 200 Ecological Footprint, 9 Eisenscher, Michael, 91, 98, 117, 172, 212–214 Ejidos, 36 Electronics Committee on Safety and Health (ECOSH), 92–98, 172, 212–213 “English-only” legislation, 8 Enron Corporation, 216 Environment, 42–44, 53 Environmental campaigns legislation, 198–200 negotiation, 203–307 policy and practice, 200–203 Environmental inequalities. See Environmental racism Environmental justice, 3, 7, 24, 50–53, 56, 67–68, 85–86, 193–222 global, 14–16, 189 (see also Chapter 8) research on, 5–6 Silicon Valley, 16–18 workplace, 10–11, 88–91, 181–184 Environmental racism, ix–x, 3, 19–20, 32, 63–64, 79–82, 84, 168 global, 14–16 (see also Chapter 8) research on, 5–6 workplace, 10–11, 88–91 Epidemics, Typhus, 30 Epoxy, 114 Equal Rights Advocates (ERA), 161 Estanislao, 30–31 E-Tech, 152 Eugenics movement, 9 European explorers, 26 Exclusive agriculture, 70, 83, 195 “Export processing zones,” principiles of, 159 Extended Producer Liability (EPR), 201 296 | Index Fabrication plants (“fabs”), 112, 170 Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation, 14, 60, 74, 92–94, 102...