Toxic struggles
Subtitle: the theory and practice of environmental justice
By: edited by Richard Hofrichter ; foreword by Lois Gibbs.
Contributors: Hofrichter, Richard.
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Environmental justice.; Environmental justice -- Political aspects.; Ecofeminism.; Social ecology.; Social justice.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-242) and index.
Table of contents: title: Capitalism and the crisis of environmentalism / Daniel Faber, James O'Connor; title: Anatomy of environmental racism / Robert D. Bullard; title: Building a new vision : feminist, green socialism / Mary Mellor; title: The promise of environmental democracy / John O'Connor; title: Creating a culture of destruction : gender, militarism and the environment / Joni Seager; title: Environmental consequences of urban growth and blight / Cynthia Hamilton; title: Feminism and ecology / Ynestra King; title: Cultural activism and environmental justice / Richard Hofrichter; title: A society based on conquest cannot be sustained : native peoples and the environmental crisis / Winona LaDuke; title: Blue-collar women and toxic-waste protests : the process of politicization / Celene Krauss; title: Acknowledging the past, confronting the present : environmental justice in the 1990s / Richard Moore and Louis Head; title: Building on our past, planning for our future : communities of color and the quest for environmental justice / Vernice D. Miller; title: Unequal protection : the racial divide in environmental law / Marianne Lavelle and Marcia A. Coyle; title: Ecofeminism and grass-roots environmentalism in the United States / Barbara Epstein; title: The effects of occupational injury, illness, and disease on the health status of black Americans : a review / Beverly Hendrix Wright, Robert D. Bullard; title: Farm workers at risk / Cesar Chavez; title: Work : the most dangerous environment / Charles Noble; title: Labor's environmental agenda in the new corporate climate / Eric Mann; title: Corporate plundering of third-world resources / Robert Weissman; title: Global economic counterrevolution : the dynamics of impoverishment and marginalization / Walden Bello; title: Trading away the environment : free-trade agreements and environmental degradation / Mark Ritchie; title: Economics and environmental justice : rethinking north-south relations / Martin Khor Kok Peng; title: Solidarity with the third world : building an international enviroxmental-justice movement / Chris Kiefer and Medea Benjamin.