Making microchips
Subtitle: policy, globalization, and economic restructuring in the semiconductor industry
By: Jan Mazurek.
Series: Urban and industrial environments
Publisher: London
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA; MIT Press
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Semiconductor industry -- Employees -- Health and hygiene.; Integrated circuits industry -- Employees -- Health and hygiene.; Computer industry -- Employees -- Health and hygiene.
Description: In Making Microchips, Jan Mazurek examines the environmental and economic implications of the computer microchip industry's exodus from California's Silicon Valley to New Mexico, Virginia, Ireland, and Taiwan. Globalization, economic restructuring, and changing manufacturing processes in this rapidly growing industry present difficult new questions for environmental policy. Mazurek challenges the assumptions of US policies designed to promote the competitiveness of domestic microchip makers.

She argues that, although these initiatives focus on the economic effects of environmental regulation, they fail to acknowledge how economic and organizational changes within the industry collide with and often confound efforts to monitor and manage pollution from chemicals used in microchip manufacturing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-237) and index.