Challenging the chip : labor rights and environmental justice in the global electronics industry

The quest for sustainability and justice in a high-tech world / Ted Smith, David A. Sonnenfeld, and David N. Pellow -- The changing map of global electronics: networks of mass production in the new economy / Boy Lüthje -- Occupational health in the semiconductor industry / Joseph LaDou -- Double jeaopardy: gender and migration in electronics manufacturing / Anibel Ferus-Comelo -- "Made in China": electronics workers in the world's fastest growing economy / Apo Leong and Sanjiv Pandita -- Corporate social responsibility in Thailand's electronics industry / Tira Foran and David A. Sonnenfeld -- Electronics workers in India / Sanjiv Pandita -- Out of the shadows and into the gloom? Worker and community health in and around central and eastern Europe's semiconductor plants / Andrew Watterson -- From grassroots to global: the Silicon Valley toxics coalition's milestones in building a movement for corporate accountability and sustainability in the high-tech industry / Leslie A. Byster and Ted Smith -- The struggle for occupational health in Silicon Valley: a conversation with Amanda Hawes / Amanda Hawes with David N. Pellow -- Immigrant workers in two eras: struggles and successes in Silicon Valley / David N. Pellow and Glenna Matthews -- Worker health at National Semiconductors, Greenock (Scotland): freedom to kill? / James McCourt-- Community-based organizing for labor rights, health, and the environment: television manufacturing on the Mexico-U.S. border / Connie García and Amelia Simpson -- Labor rights and occupational health in Jalisco's electronics industry (Mexico) -- Raquel E. Partida Rocha -- Breaking the Silicon silence: voicing health and environmental impacts within Taiwan's Hsinchu Science Park / Shenglin Chang, Hua-Mei Chiu, and Wen-Ling Tu -- Human lives valued less than dirt: former RCA workers contaminated by pollution fighting worldwide for justice (Taiwan) / Yu-Ling Ku -- Unionizing electronics: the need for new strategies / Robert Steiert -- The electronics production life cycle. From Toxics to sustainability: getting off the toxic treadmill / Leslie A. Byster and Ted Smith -- High-tech pollution in Japan: growing problems, alternative solutions / Fumikazu Yoshida -- High-tech's dirty little secret: the economics and ethics of the electronic waste trade / Jim Puckett -- Hi-tech heaps, forsaken lives: e-waste in Delhi / Ravi Agarwal and Kishore Wankhade -- Importing extended producer responsibility for electronic equipment into the United States / Chad Raphael and Ted Smith -- International environmental agreements and the information technology industry / Ken Geiser and Joel Tickner -- Design change in electrical and electronic equipment: impacts of the extended producer responsibility legislation in Sweden and Japan / Naoko Tojo -- ToxicDude.com: the Dell campaign / David Wood and Robin Schneider -- Appendixes -- A. Principles of environmental justice -- B. The silicon principles of socially and environmentally responsible electronics manufacturing -- C. Sample shareholder resolutions -- D. Computer takeback campaign statement of principles -- E. Electronics recycler's pledge of true stewardship.