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Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy: Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy (Critical America)
David Naguib Pellow
Lisa Sun-Hee Park
Hardcover. NYU Press 2002-12.
ISBN 9780814767092
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Publisher description
Next to the nuclear industry, the largest producer of contaminants in the
air, land, and water is the electronics industry. Silicon Valley hosts the
highest density of Superfund sites anywhere in America and leads the country in
the number of temporary workers per capita and in workforce gender inequities.
Silicon Valley offers a sobering illustration of environmental inequality and
other problems that are increasingly linked to the globalization of the world's
economies. In "The Silicon Valley of Dreams", the authors take a hard look at the
high-tech region of Silicon Valley to examine environmental racism within the
context of immigrant patterns, labour markets, and the historical patterns of
colonialism. One cannot understand Silicon Valley or the high-tech global
economy in general, they contend, without also understanding the role people of
colour play in the labour force, working in the electronic industry's toxic
environments. These toxic work environments produce chemical pollution that, in
turn, disrupts the ecosystems of surrounding communities inhabited by people of
colour and immigrants. The authors trace the origins of this exploitation and
provide a new understanding of the present-day struggles for occupational
health and safety. "The Silicon Valley of Dreams" is aimed at students and scholars in ethnic
studies, immigration, urban studies, gender studies, social movements, and the
environment, as well as activists and policy-makers working to address the
needs of workers, communities, and industry. In "The Silicon Valley of Dreams", the authors take a hard look at the
high-tech region of Silicon Valley to examine environmental racism within the
context of immigrant patterns, labour markets, and the historical patterns of
colonialism.
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