The Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy


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Examines environmental inequality and racism in our globalized culture as evidenced by the social demographics of Silicon Valley.

Author: David Pellow, Lisa Sun-Hee Park
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 12/22/2002
Pages: 303
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.54h x 6.62w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780814767108
ISBN10: 0814767109
BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Economic History
- Business & Economics | Industries | Computers & Information Technology
- Social Science | Emigration & Immigration

About the Author
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.