From Silicon Valley in California to Silicon Glen in Scotland, from Silicon Island in Taiwan to Silicon Paddy
in China, the social, economic, and ecological effects of the international electronics industry are widespread.
The production of electronic and computer components contaminates air, land, and water around the globe. As this
eye-opening book reveals, the people who suffer the consequences are largely poor, female, immigrant, and minority.
Challenging the Chip is the first comprehensive examination of the impacts of electronics manufacturing on workers
and local environments across the planet.
Contributors to this pioneering volume include many of the world's most articulate, passionate and progressive
visionaries, scholars and advocates. Here they not only document the unsustainable and often devastating practices
of the global electronics industry but also chronicle creative ways in which activists, government agencies, and
others have attempted to reform the industry--through resistance, persuasion, and regulation.