The Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy (Critical America)
"Provides a timely and necessary counter-balance to the incessant 'new economy' hype that touts Silicon Valley as the answer to the myriad economic and environmental challenges around the world. This comprehensive overview helps to peel away the veneer by using an innovative combination of research methods, including direct participatory research. It raises disturbing and compelling concerns by examining the many environmental and gender injustices that have been at the center of the 'Silicon Valley miracle.' An important contribution to the key debates of the twenty-first century about sustainable development."-Ted Smith,Executive Director, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition"This landmark study adds significantly to our understanding of both the underside of Silicon Valley and the high-tech industry in specific, and the historic links between social inequality and environmental inequality in general. The authors also leave us with a sense of hope by offering examples of effective movements for justice."-Karen Hossfeld,San Francisco State University"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 exposé"-Journal of American Ethnic History,