Contents -- Foreword: Technology Happens -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Quest for Sustainability and Justice in a High-Tech World -- I. GLOBAL ELECTRONICS -- 2 The Changing Map of Global Electronics: Networks of Mass Production in the New Economy -- 3 Occupational Health in the Semiconductor Industry -- 4 Double Jeopardy: Gender and Migration in Electronics Manufacturing -- 5 "Made in China": Electronics Workers in the World's Fastest Growing Economy -- 6 Corporate Social Responsibility in Thailand's Electronics Industry -- 7 Electronics Workers in India -- 8 Out of the Shadows and into the Gloom? Worker and Community Health in and around Central and Eastern Europe's Semiconductor Plants -- II. ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND LABOR RIGHTS -- 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 -- 10 The Struggle for Occupational Health in Silicon Valley: A Conversation with Amanda Hawes -- 11 Immigrant Workers in Two Eras: Struggles and Successes in Silicon Valley -- 12 Worker Health at National Semiconductor, Greenock (Scotland): Freedom to Kill? -- 13 Community-Based Organizing for Labor Rights, Health, and the Environment: Television Manufacturing on the Mexico-U.S. Border -- 14 Labor Rights and Occupational Health in Jalisco's Electronics Industry (Mexico) -- 15 Breaking the Silicon Silence: Voicing Health and Environmental Impacts within Taiwan's Hsinchu Science Park -- 16 Human Lives Valued Less Than Dirt: Former RCA Workers Contaminated by Pollution Fighting Worldwide for Justice (Taiwan) -- 17 Unionizing Electronics: The Need for New Strategies -- III. ELECTRONIC WASTE AND EXTENDED PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY -- 18 The Electronics Production Life Cycle: From Toxics to Sustainability: Getting Off the Toxic Treadmill.

19 High-Tech Pollution in Japan: Growing Problems, Alternative Solutions -- 20 High-Tech's Dirty Little Secret: The Economics and Ethics of the Electronic Waste Trade -- 21 Hi-Tech Heaps, Forsaken Lives: E-Waste in Delhi -- 22 Importing Extended Producer Responsibility for Electronic Equipment into the United States -- 23 International Environmental Agreements and the Information Technology Industry -- 24 Design Change in Electrical and Electronic Equipment: Impacts of Extended Producer Responsibility Legislation in Sweden and Japan -- 25 ToxicDude.com: The Dell Campaign -- Appendix A: Principles of Environmental Justice -- Appendix B: The Silicon Principles of Socially and Environmentally Responsible Electronics Manufacturing -- Appendix C: Sample Shareholder Resolutions -- Appendix D: Computer TakeBack Campaign Statement of Principles -- Appendix E: Electronics Recycler's Pledge of True Stewardship -- Acronyms Used -- References -- Resources -- Contributors -- Index.