Challenging the Chip

by Smith, Ted; Sonnenfeld, David Allan; Pellow, David N.

• ISBN13: 9781592133307
• ISBN10: 1592133304
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-28
• Publisher: Temple Univ Pr

Summary

Challenging the Chip is the first comprehensive examination of the impacts of electronics manufacturing on workers and local environments around the world. The essays in this volume contribute to a collaborative international discourse of citizens, workers, health professionals, academics, labour leaders, environmental activists, and others with the common goal of developing alternative visions for the regulation and sustainable development of manufacturing, assembly/disassembly, and waste disposal in the global electronics industry. Contributors from Asia, North America, Europe, and Latin America provide multidimensional perspectives on the science and the politics of environmental and social justice, documenting the efforts of community and labour activists, government agencies, and others in introducing more sustainable systems of production to one of the world's largest manufacturing industries.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Technology Happens	ix
Jim Hightower
Acknowledgments	xiii
The Quest for Sustainability and Justice in a High-Tech World	1	(16)
Ted Smith
David A. Sonnenfeld
David N. Pellow
PART I. GLOBAL ELECTRONICS
Section Introduction	13	(4)
David A. Sonnenfeld
The Changing Map of Global Electronics: Networks of Mass Production in the New Economy	17	(14)
Boy Luthje
Occupational Health in the Semiconductor Industry	31	(12)
Joseph LaDou
Double Jeopardy: Gender and Migration in Electronics Manufacturing	43	(12)
Anibel Ferus-Comelo
``Made in China'': Electronics Workers in the World's Fastest Growing Economy	55	(15)
Apo Leong
Sanjiv Pandita
Corporate Social Responsibility in Thailand's Electronics Industry	70	(13)
Tira Foran
David A. Sonnenfeld
Electronics Workers in India	83	(13)
Sanjiv Pandita
Out of the Shadows and into the Gloom? Worker and Community Health in and around Central and Eastern Europe's Semiconductor Plants	96	(15)
Andrew Watterson
PART II. ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND LABOR RIGHTS
Section Introduction	107	(4)
Andrew Watterson
Shenglin Chang
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	111	(9)
Leslie A. Byster
Ted Smith
The Struggle for Occupational Health in Silicon Valley: A Conversation with Amanda Hawes	120	(9)
Amanda Hawes with
David N. Pellow
Immigrant Workers in Two Eras: Struggles and Successes in Silicon Valley	129	(10)
David N. Pellow
Glenna Matthews
Worker Health at National Semiconductor, Greenock (Scotland): Freedom to Kill?	139	(11)
James McCourt
Community-Based Organizing for Labor Rights, Health, and the Environment: Television Manufacturing on the Mexico-U.S. Border	150	(11)
Connie Garcia
Amelia Simpson
Labor Rights and Occupational Health in Jalisco's Electronics Industry (Mexico)	161	(9)
Raquel E. Partida Rocha
Breaking the Silicon Silence: Voicing Health and Environmental Impacts within Taiwan's Hsinchu Science Park	170	(11)
Shenglin Chang
Hua-Mei Chiu
Wen-Ling Tu
Human Lives Valued Less Than Dirt: Former RCA Workers Contaminated by Pollution Fighting Worldwide for Justice (Taiwan)	181	(10)
Yu-Ling Ku
Unionizing Electronics: The Need for New Strategies	191	(14)
Robert Steiert
PART III. ELECTRONIC WASTE AND EXTENDED PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY
Section Introduction	201	(4)
Leslie A. Byster
Wen-Ling Tu
The Electronics Production Life Cycle. From Toxics to Sustainability: Getting Off the Toxic Treadmill	205	(10)
Leslie A. Byster
Ted Smith
High-Tech Pollution in Japan: Growing Problems, Alternative Solutions	215	(10)
Fumikazu Yoshida
High-Tech's Dirty Little Secret: The Economics and Ethics of the Electronic Waste Trade	225	(9)
Jim Puckett
Hi-Tech Heaps, Forsaken Lives: E-Waste in Delhi	234	(13)
Ravi Agarwal
Kishore Wankhade
Importing Extended Producer Responsibility for Electronic Equipment into the United States	247	(13)
Chad Raphael
Ted Smith
International Environmental Agreements and the Information Technology Industry	260	(13)
Ken Geiser
Joel Tickner
Design Change in Electrical and Electronic Equipment: Impacts of the Extended Producer Responsibility Legislation in Sweden and Japan	273	(12)
Naoko Tojo
ToxicDude.com: The Dell Campaign	285	(14)
David Wood
Robin Schneider
Appendix A. Principles of Environmental Justice	299	(2)
Appendix B. The Silicon Principles of Socially and Environmentally Responsible Electronics Manufacturing	301	(2)
Appendix C. Sample Shareholder Resolutions	303	(3)
Appendix D. Computer TakeBack Campaign Statement of Principles	306	(2)
Appendix E. Electronics Recycler's Pledge of True Stewardship	308	(3)
Acronyms Used	311	(4)
References	315	(22)
Resources	337	(2)
Contributors	339	(4)
Index	343