@article{1386136,
      author = {Mazurek, Jan,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1386136},
      title = {Making microchips : policy, globalization, and economic  restructuring in the semiconductor industry /},
      publisher = {MIT Press,},
      abstract = {In Making Microchips, Jan Mazurek examines the  environmental and economic implications of the computer  microchip industry's exodus from California's Silicon  Valley to New Mexico, Virginia, Ireland, and Taiwan.  Globalization, economic restructuring, and changing  manufacturing processes in this rapidly growing industry  present difficult new questions for environmental policy.  Mazurek challenges the assumptions of U.S. policies  designed to promote the competitiveness of domestic  microchip makers. She argues that, although these  initiatives focus on the economic effects of environmental  regulation, they fail to acknowledge how economic and  organizational changes within the industry collide with and  often confound efforts to monitor and manage pollution from  chemicals used in microchip manufacturing. Despite its  reputation as a clean industry, microchip manufacturing is  fraught with hazards. More than sixty dangerous acids,  solvents, caustics, and gases are used to make microchips,  and some of them are suspected to be carcinogens and/or  reproductive toxins.},
      recid = {1386136},
      pages = {1 online resource (xiv, 245 pages) :},
      address = {Cambridge, MA ;},
      year = {1999},
}