The book's twenty-five chapters not only document the unsustainable practices of the growing electronics sector over its first quarter of a century, but also propose and chronicle creative ways in which community and labor activists, government agencies, and others have attempted through resistance, regulation, and other means to introduce more sustainable systems of production into that sector. Electronics is one of the world's largest manufacturing sectors, with social, economic, and ecological impacting six continents across the planet. The production of electronics and computer components contaminates the air, land, water, and human beings with nearly unrivalled intensity. These in turn are problems also of labor rights (particularly occupational safety and health) and environmental injustice in that the people whose health is being compromised in this "new economy" are largely working class, poor, female, and often from immigrant, and ethnic minority populations.