LEADER 06880nam 22012373u 450 001 9910784275403321 005 20230317185253.0 010 $a1-281-09390-4 010 $a9786611093907 010 $a1-59213-331-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000339865 035 $a(EBL)298854 035 $a(OCoLC)476074875 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000119669 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11131977 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000119669 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10074021 035 $a(PQKB)11593986 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC298854 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000339865 100 $a20131216d2008|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aChallenging the Chip$b[electronic resource] $eLabor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry 210 $aPhiladelphia $cTemple University Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (372 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 327 $aContents; Foreword: Technology Happens; Acknowledgments; 1 The Quest for Sustainability and Justice in a High-Tech World; I. GLOBAL ELECTRONICS; 2 The Changing Map of Global Electronics: Networks of Mass Production in the New Economy; 3 Occupational Health in the Semiconductor Industry; 4 Double Jeopardy: Gender and Migration in Electronics Manufacturing; 5 "Made in China": Electronics Workers in the World's FastestGrowing Economy; 6 Corporate Social Responsibility in Thailand's Electronics Industry; 7 Electronics Workers in India 327 $a8 Out of the Shadows and into the Gloom? Worker and Community Health in and around Centraland Eastern Europe's Semiconductor PlantsII. ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND LABOR RIGHTS; 9 From Grassroots to Global: The Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition's Milestones inBuilding a Movement for Corporate Accountabilityand Sustainability in the High-Tech Industry; 10 The Struggle for Occupational Health in Silicon Valley: A Conversation with Amanda Hawes; 11 Immigrant Workers in Two Eras: Struggles and Successes in Silicon Valley 327 $a12 Worker Health at National Semiconductor, Greenock (Scotland): Freedom to Kill?13 Community-Based Organizing for Labor Rights, Health, and the Environment: Television Manufacturing on the Mexico-U.S. Border; 14 Labor Rights and Occupational Health in Jalisco's Electronics Industry (Mexico); 15 Breaking the Silicon Silence: Voicing Health and Environmental Impacts withinTaiwan's Hsinchu Science Park; 16 Human Lives Valued Less Than Dirt: Former RCA Workers Contaminated by PollutionFighting Worldwide for Justice (Taiwan); 17 Unionizing Electronics: The Need for New Strategies 327 $aIII. ELECTRONIC WASTE AND EXTENDED PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY18 The Electronics Production Life Cycle: From Toxics to Sustainability: Getting Off theToxic Treadmill; 19 High-Tech Pollution in Japan: Growing Problems, Alternative Solutions; 20 High-Tech's Dirty Little Secret: The Economics and Ethics of theElectronic Waste Trade; 21 Hi-Tech Heaps, Forsaken Lives: E-Waste in Delhi; 22 Importing Extended Producer Responsibility for Electronic Equipment into the United States; 23 International Environmental Agreements and the Information Technology Industry 327 $a24 Design Change in Electrical and Electronic Equipment: Impacts of Extended ProducerResponsibility Legislation in Swedenand Japan25 ToxicDude.com: The Dell Campaign; Appendix A: Principles of Environmental Justice; Appendix B: The Silicon Principles of Socially and EnvironmentallyResponsible Electronics Manufacturing; Appendix C: Sample Shareholder Resolutions; Appendix D: Computer TakeBack Campaign Statement of Principles; Appendix E: Electronics Recycler's Pledge of True Stewardship; Acronyms Used; References; Resources; Contributors; Index 330 $aFrom 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. 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