Challenging the Chip: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781592133291)

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 industryOCothrough resistance, persuasion, and regulation."

Author: David Pellow
ISBN-10: 1592133290
ISBN-13: 9781592133291
Publisher: Temple University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/15/2006
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.08d

Review Citation(s):
Multicultural Review 05/01/2007 pg. 83
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2007 pg. 1 - Strongly Recommended