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

Foreword : technology happens / Jim Hightower

1. quest for sustainability and justice in a high-tech world / Ted Smith, David A. Sonnenfeld and David N. Pellow

2. changing map of global electronics : networks of mass production in the new economy / Boy Luthje

3. Occupational health in the semiconductor industry / Joseph LaDou

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. Electronics 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

9. 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

10. struggle for occupational health in Silicon Valley : a conversation with Amanda Hawes / Amanda Hawes and 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 (Scotland) : freedom to kill? / James McCourt

13. Community-based organizing for labor rights, health, and the environment : television manufacturing on the Mexico-U.S. border / Connie Garcia and Amelia Simpson

14. Labor rights and occupational health in Jalisco's electronics industry (Mexico) / Raquel E. Partida Rocha

15. Breaking the silicon silence : voicing 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 Ku

17. Unionizing electronics : the need for new strategies / Robert Steiert

18. electronics production life cycle : from toxics to sustainability : getting off the toxic treadmill / 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 : the economics and ethics of the electronic waste trade / Jim Puckett

21. Hi-tech heaps, forsaken lives : e-waste in Delhi / Ravi Agarwal and Kishore Wankhade

22. Importing extended producer responsibility for electronic equipment into the United States / 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 the extended producer responsibility legislation in Sweden and Japan / Naoko Tojo

25. ToxicDude.com : the Dell campaign / David Wood and Robin Schneider

App. A. Principles of environmental justice

App. B. silicon principles of socially and environmentally responsible electronics manufacturing

App. C. Sample shareholder resolutions

App. D. Computer TakeBack Campaign statement of principles

App. E. Electronics recycler's pledge of true stewardship.