I've noticed people searching for this book and landing on my site, so I thought I'd give it a mention.*
Challenging The Chip: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry is a new book brought to you by the excellent Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition. Here's their description of the book:
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 industry—through resistance, persuasion, and regulation.
I've only skimmed the book in a bookstore but hope to track down a library copy soon to read. This book gives some much-needed exposure to issues that hardly anybody knows about. We hear the odd murmur of about possible iPod sweatshops, but I think the problem is much, much bigger than people imagine.
*Yep, you have no privacy on the web, just in case you thought otherwise. (But the TypePad stats only show referring sites or searches, that's all.)
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