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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. 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