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

By David N. Pellow, L. Park. 2002

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Subfields: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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4. David N. Pellow

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• Local And Regional Development (2006, background): “Stages theory Stages theories of economic growth have tended to focus upon the national and regional levels and sectoral change (Perloff et al. 1960).”
• Corporate accountability to the poor? Assessing the effectiveness of community-based strategies (2005, background): “It suggests that while there is some evidence of a link between the scale of a company’s social and environmental impact and its likelihood of engaging in CSR initiatives, (a) this is not always the case as service sectors that have been less prominent in these debates also generate a considerable s”
• Interrogating the Treadmill of Production (2004, background): “…recycling in the United States (Weinberg et al., 2000), on ecotourism (Gould, 1999), on local alternative technology initiatives in the global South (Schnaiberg & Gould, 2000), and on environmental injustice in the waste treatment and electronics industries (Pellow, 2002; Pellow & Park, 2002).”
• Environmental justice: human health and environmental inequalities. (2006, background): “exploitation of the environment and exploitation of human populations are linked (22, 95).”
• Prospects for an Environmental Economic Geography: Linking Ecological Modernization and Regulationist Approaches (2006, background): “Far from being the clean industries of popular imagination, the high-technology sectors of locales such as Silicon Valley may be significant polluters and may provide unhealthy working conditions (Pellow and Park 2002).”