Capitalizing on Environmental Injustice: The Polluter-Industrial Complex in the Age of Globalization (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780742533929)

Capitalizing on Environmental Injustice provides a comprehensive overview of the achievements and challenges confronting the environmental justice movement. Pressured by increased international competition and the demand for higher profits, industrial and political leaders are working to weaken many of America's most essential environmental, occupational, and consumer protection laws. In addition, corporate-led globalization exports many ecological hazards abroad. The result is a deepening of the ecological crisis in both the United States and the Global South. However, not all people are impacted equally. In this process of capital restructuring, it is the most marginalized segments of society -poor people of color and the working class-that suffer the greatest force of corporate environmental abuses. Daniel Faber, a leading environmental sociologist, analyzes the global political and economic forces that create these environmental injustices. With a multi-disciplinary approach, Faber presents both broad overviews and powerful insider case studies, examining the connections between many different struggles for change. Capitalizing on Environmental Injustice explores compelling movements to challenge the polluter-industrial complex and bring about meaningful social transformation.

Author: Daniel Faber
ISBN-10: 0742533921
ISBN-13: 9780742533929
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 07/11/2008
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.70h x 6.00w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 10/10/2008 pg. 19
Choice 03/01/2009