Preface 1 Introduction2 Early History and the Struggle for Resources: Native Nations, Spain, Mexico, and the United States 3 The Valley of the Heart's Delight: Santa Clara County's Agricultural Period, 1870-1970 4 The Emergence of Silicon Valley: High-Tech Development and Ecocide, 1950-2001 5 The Political Economy of Work and Health in Silicon Valley 6 The Core: Work and the Struggle to Make a Living without Dying 7 The Periphery: Expendable People, Dangerous Work 8 Beyond Silicon Valley: The Social and Environmental Costs of the Global Microelectronics Industry 9 Toward Environmental and Social Justice in Silicon Valley, USA, and Beyond 10 The Broader Picture: Natural Resources, Globalization, and Increasing InequalityNotes References Index About the Authors
Examines environmental inequality and racism in our globalized culture as evidenced by the social demographics of Silicon Valley.
David Pellow (Author)
David N. Pellow is the Dehlsen Chair of Environmental
Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His
teaching and research focus on environmental and ecological justice
in the U.S. and globally.
Lisa Sun-Hee Park (Author)
Lisa Sun-Hee Park is Professor and Chair of Asian American
Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the
author of Entitled to Nothing: The Struggle for Immigrant Health
Care in the Age of Welfare Reform as well as co-author of The
Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Injustice, Immigrant
Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy and The Slums of Aspen:
Immigrants vs. the Environment in America’s Eden.
"An important contribution to the contemporary critique of high tech industry." -- Contemporary Sociology "Offers a lot for the general reader. The authors must be congratulated." --International Migration Review"Powerful and passionate expos" -- Journal of American Ethnic History "An important contribution to the environmental sociology literature." -- Choice "Powerful, compelling and revealing. Pellow and Park weave a fascinating story of both the historical and current domination of gender, class and race in Silicon Valley." -- Alternatives Journal "The Silicon Valley of Dreams ... exposes the numerous inequities that plague the area, from the huge number of temporary workers, the highest per capita in the nation, to the obvious absence of union jobs." --Conscious Choice "The authors of [this] important [book] share a sense of compassion for and commitment to the struggle of labor, community, civil rights and environmental activists." --Los Angeles Times "The Silicon Valley of Dreams provides a progressive intervention into environmental sociology and into public discourse on the relationship between immigration and environment." -- American Journal of Sociology "Critical reading for students and scholars in ethnic studies, immigration, urban studies, gender studies, social movements and environmental studies, as well as activists and policy-makers working to address the need of workers, communities and industry." --Educational Book Review
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