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Author : Leslie Kochan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Maquiladoras and Toxics written by Leslie Kochan and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jennifer Clapp
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501735934
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Toxic Exports written by Jennifer Clapp and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, international trade in toxic waste and hazardous technologies by firms in rich industrialized countries has emerged as a routine practice. Many poor countries have accepted these deadly imports but are ill equipped to manage the materials safely. For more than a decade, environmentalists and the governments of developing countries have lobbied intensively and generated public outcry in an attempt to halt hazardous transfers from Northern industrialized nations to the Third World, but the practice continues.In her insightful and important book, Jennifer Clapp addresses this alarming problem. Clapp describes the responses of those engaged in hazard transfer to international regulations, and in particular to the 1989 adoption of the Basel Convention. She pinpoints a key weakness of the regulations—because hazard transfer is dynamic, efforts to stop one form of toxic export prompt new forms to emerge. For instance, laws intended to ban the disposal of toxic wastes in the Third World led corporations to ship these byproducts to poor countries for "recycling." And, Clapp warns, current efforts to prohibit this "recycling movement" may accelerate a new business endeavor: the relocation to poor countries of entire industries that generate toxic wastes.Clapp concludes that the dynamic nature of hazard transfer results from increasingly fluid global trade and investment relations in the context of a highly unequal world, and from the leading role played by multinational corporations and environmental NGOs. Governments, she maintains, have for too long failed to capture the initiative and have instead only reacted to these opposing forces.
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Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Summary of Information Collected from U.S. Parent Companies of Maquiladoras Relating to the New River written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lester B. Lave
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135996733
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Air Pollution and Human Health written by Lester B. Lave and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon competition of a ten year research project which analyzes the effect of air pollution and death rates in US cities, Lester B. Lave and Eugene P. Seskin conclude that the mortality rate in the US could shrink by seven percent with a similar if not greater decline in disease incidence if industries followed EPA regulations in cutting back on certain pollutant emissions. The authors claim that this reduction is sufficient to add one year to average life expectancy. Originally published in 1977.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Binational Study Regarding the Presence of Toxic Substances in the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo and Its Tributaries Along the Boundary Portion Between the United States and Mexico written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Burke Sullivan
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN 13 : 9780683080278
Total Pages : 1348 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Clinical Environmental Health and Toxic Exposures written by John Burke Sullivan and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its revised and updated Second Edition, this volume is the most comprehensive and authoritative text in the rapidly evolving field of environmental toxicology. The book provides the objective information that health professionals need to prevent environmental health problems, plan for emergencies, and evaluate toxic exposures in patients.Coverage includes safety, regulatory, and legal issues; clinical toxicology of specific organ systems; emergency medical response to hazardous materials releases; and hazards of specific industries and locations. Nearly half of the book examines all known toxins and environmental health hazards. A Brandon-Hill recommended title.
Author : Mary Clifford
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN 13 : 9780834210097
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Environmental Crime written by Mary Clifford and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 1998 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appendices include: Glossary, Important environmental activities, Criminal sanctions outlined in federal environmental legislation, environmental legal cases, environmental crimes investigations for law enforcement officers.
Author : Heide Gerstenberger
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004522638
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Market and Violence written by Heide Gerstenberger and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-10-10 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** Winner of the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2023. ** Despite their many disagreements when it comes to the subject of capitalism, Marxist and market-liberal approaches seem to agree about one thing: the economic structures of capitalist market society have made direct violence against the person not only superfluous, but economically counterproductive. Heide Gerstenberger's Market and Violence does not contest the thesis that there has been, in many places, a decline in the use of violence in the pursuit of profit; but it demolishes the assumption that this can be put down to the evolution of economic rationality. By means of a deep engagement with the concrete historical reality of capitalist economies, Gerstenberger establishes that, wherever capitalism has been tamed, this has been achieved only by a combination of energetic social contestation and political intervention. First published in German in 2018, the present English-language edition makes a sweeping history of capitalist violence by one of the preeminent theorists of capitalist society working today available to a wider readership.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Labor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
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Author : Devon G. Peña
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292746199
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book The Terror of the Machine written by Devon G. Peña and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born of thirteen years of field research, this interdisciplinary work explores the complex intersections of technology, class, gender, and ecology in the transnational milieu of Mexico's maquiladoras, foreign-owned assembly plants located along the U.S. border. Devon Peña examines workplace and community struggles from the perspective of the women who work in the maquiladoras. He describes the workers' struggles for workplace democracy, social justice, and sustainable development. He also observes the circulation of struggle from the factory to the community, highlighting the efforts to establish worker-owned cooperatives in the border region during the 1970s and 1980s. Female maquila workers are typically portrayed as passive, apolitical, and easily exploited. This book, however, presents an opposing view, investigating the "subaltern life of the shop floor"—the workers' informal methods of resistance to hazardous conditions, sexual harassment, and managerial tyranny. Using survey research, oral history, discourse analysis, and site ethnography, the author develops a cogent critique of labor-process theory, a critique grounded on his extensive study of actual workplace politics in the maquiladoras. The Terror of the Machine is a trenchant analysis of the political, cultural, and environmental effects of maquila industrialization and an eloquent and persuasive call for alternatives in the direction of ecologically sustainable and culturally appropriate modes of development.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1062 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations for 2003 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Lauter
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9781444320633
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (26 download)
Download or read book A Companion to American Literature and Culture written by Paul Lauter and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-02-12 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This expansive Companion offers a set of fresh perspectives on the wealth of texts produced in and around what is now the United States. * Highlights the diverse voices that constitute American literature, embracing oral traditions, slave narratives, regional writing, literature of the environment, and more * Demonstrates that American literature was multicultural before Europeans arrived on the continent, and even more so thereafter * Offers three distinct paradigms for thinking about American literature, focusing on: genealogies of American literary study; writers and issues; and contemporary theories and practices * Enables students and researchers to generate richer, more varied and more comprehensive readings of American literature
Author : Andrew Friedland
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1464100756
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (641 download)
Download or read book Essentials of Environmental Science written by Andrew Friedland and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International system of units (Metric system)--and common U.S. unit conversions; Periodic table; on rear end papers.
Author : Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Pop Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful book introduces the most important trends, people, events, and products of popular culture in Latin America and the Caribbean. In recent times, Latin American influences have permeated American culture through music, movies, television, and literature. This sweeping volume serves as a ready-reference guide to pop culture in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean, focusing on Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, Haiti, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and Costa Rica, among other areas. The work encourages hands-on engagement with the popular culture in these places, making such suggestions as Brazilian films to rent or where to find Venezuelan music on the Internet. To start, the book covers various perspectives and issues of these regions, including the influence of the United States, how the idea of machismo reflects on the portrayal of women in these societies, and the representation of Latino-Caribo cultures in film and other mediums. Entries cover key trends, people, events, and products from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. Each section gives detailed information and profound insights into some of the more academic—and often controversial—debates on the subject, while the inclusion of the Internet, social media, and video games make the book timely and relevant.
Author : Robert B. Potter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317879686
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book The City in the Developing World written by Robert B. Potter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The City in the Developing World is a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to urbanisation in developing countries. The goal of this text is to place an understanding of the developing world city in its wider global context. First, this is done by developing the concept of social surplus product as a key to understanding the character of the contemporary Third World city. Second, throughout this text, the city in developing areas is centrally placed in the context of global, social, economic, political and cultural change. Thus, the important themes of globalisation, modernity and postmodernity are examined both in relation to the structure of sets of towns and cities which make up the national or regional urban system, and in respect of ideas and concepts dealing with the morphology, structure and social patterning of individual urban areas. The City in the Developing World is a core text for second and third year undergraduates in the fields of geography, development studies, planning, economics and the social sciences, taking options which deal with development issues, development theory, gender and development and Third World development.
Author : Philip Russell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135017220
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Essential History of Mexico written by Philip Russell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The full text of The History of Mexico: From Pre-Conquest to Present traces the last 500 years of Mexican history, from the indigenous empires devastated by the Spanish conquest through the 21st-century, including the election of 2012. Written in a clear and accessible manner, the book offers a straightforward chronological survey of Mexican history from pre-colonial times to the present, and includes a glossary as well as numerous images and tables for comprehensive study. This version, The Essential History of Mexico, streamlines and updates the text of the full first edition to make it easier for classroom use. Helpful pedagogy has been added for contextualization and support, including: Side-by-side world and Mexican timelines at the beginning of each chapter that place the national events from each chapter in broader global context Bolded keywords that draw attention to important terms Cultural and biography boxes in each chapter that help highlight aspects of social history Primary documents in each chapter that allow historical actors to speak directly to students Annotated suggestions for further reading In addition, the companion website provides many valuable tools for students and instructors, including links to online resources and videos, discussion questions, and images and figures from the book.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Economic Development
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Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Fast Track Authority and North American Free Trade Agreement written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Economic Development and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
