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Making Microchips

Policy, Globalization, and Economic Restructuring in the Semiconductor Industry - Jan Mazurek, 1999

Microchips, unlike automobiles, are resource intensive - when sold, they contain very few of the raw materials used to manufacture them. According to Jan Mazurek, "the computer microchip industry's clean outward appearance and clean image tends to eclipse its glaringly poor environmental record." Mazurek's excellently researched work shows how reorganization and relocation of manufacturing facilities divert attention from trends in toxic emissions and how they complicate public and private efforts to improve the industry's environmental performance.

The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 245 pages, ISBN 0-262-13345-8.