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The Silicon Valley of dreams : environmental injustice, immigrant workers, and the high-tech global economy
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ISBN: 0814767095 0814767109 0814768571 1417588357 9780814767092 9780814767108 9781417588350 0814768172 9780814768570 Year: 2002 Publisher: New York : New York University Press,

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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 the nation 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 envi

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