Edited by: Ted Smith, David A. Sonnenfeld, and David Naguib Pellow
Foreword by Jim Hightower
with Leslie Byster, Shenglin Chang, Amanda Hawes, Wen-ling Tu, and Andrew Watterson
Foreword
Technology Happens - Jim Hightower
Introduction
1. The Quest for Sustainability and Justice in a High-Tech World [PDF] - Ted Smith, David A. Sonnenfeld, and David N. Pellow
Part I. Global Electronics
2. The Changing Map of Global Electronics: Networks of Mass Production in the New Economy - Boy Lüthje
3. Occupational Health in the Semiconductor Industry - Joseph LaDou, M.D.
4. Double Jeopardy: Gender and Migration in Electronics Manufacturing - Anibel Ferus-Comelo
5. "Made in China": Electronics Workers in the World's Fastest Growing Economy - Apo Leong and Sanjiv Pandita
6. Corporate Social Responsibility in Thailand's Electronics Industry - Tira Foran and David A. Sonnenfeld
7. Electronic Workers in India - Sanjiv Pandita
8. Out of the Shadows and into the Gloom? Worker and Community Health in and around Central and Eastern Europe's Semiconductor Plants - Andrew Watterson
Part II. Environmental Justice and Labor Rights
9. SVTC's Milestones in Building a Movement To Promote Corporate Accountability and Sustainability in the High-Tech Industry - Leslie A. Byster and Ted Smith
10. The Struggle for Occupational Health in Silicon Valley - Amanda Hawes with David N. Pellow
11 Immigrant Workers in Two Eras: Struggles and Successes in Silicon Valley - David N. Pellow and Glenna Matthews
12. Worker Health at National Semiconductor, Greenock: Freedom to Kill? (Scotland) - James McCourt
13. Community-Based Organizing for Labor Rights, Health and the Environment: Television Manufacturing on the Mexico-U.S. Border - Connie García and Amelia Simpson
14. Labor Rights and Occupational Health in Jalisco's Electronic Industry (Mexico) - Raquel E. Partida Rocha
15. Breaking the Silicon Silence: Giving Voice to Health and Environmental Impacts within Taiwan's Hsinchu Science Park - Shenglin Chang, Hua-mei Chiu, and Wen-ling Tu
16. Human Lives Valued Less than Dirt: Former RCA Workers Contaminated by Pollution Fighting Worldwide for Justice (Taiwan) - Yu-ling Kup>
17. Unionizing Electronics: The Need for New Strategies - Robert Steiert
Part III. E-Waste & Extended Producer Responsibility
18. The Electronics Production Lifecycle: From Toxics to Sustainability? - Leslie A. Byster and Ted Smith
19. High-Tech Pollution in Japan: Growing Problems, Alternative Solutions - Fumikazu Yoshida
20. High-Tech's Dirty Little Secret: Economics and Ethics of the Electronic Waste Trade - Jim Puckett
21. High-Tech Heaps, Forsaken Lives: E-waste in Delhi (India) -
Ravi Agarwal and Kishore Wankhade
22. Extended Producer Responsibility for Electronic Equipment in the USA - Chad Raphael and Ted Smith
23. International Environmental Agreements and the Information Technology Industry - Ken Geiser and Joel Tickner
24. Design Change in Electrical and Electronic Equipment: Impacts of Extended Producer Responsibility Legislation in Sweden and Japan - Naoko Tojo
25. ToxicDude.com: the Dell Campaign (USA) - David Wood and Robin Schneider
Appendices
Resources
Index
