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Killing me softly : toxic waste, corporate profit, and the struggle for environmental justice / Eddie J. Girdner, Jack Smith.

Van Pelt Library GE220 .G57 2002
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Girdner, Eddie J.
Contributor:
Smith, Jack, 1945-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Environmental justice.
Hazardous waste management industry--United States.
Hazardous waste management industry.
Hazardous waste sites.
United States.
Globalization--Social aspects.
Globalization.
Corporate power.
Hazardous waste sites--Political aspects--Missouri--Mercer County.
Missouri.
Missouri--Mercer County.
Physical Description:
ix, 165 pages ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : Monthly Review Press, [2002]
Contents:
1. The Toxic Political Economy 1
2. Wasting America: Capitalism, Waste, and the Market in the United States 32
3. Environmental Justice, Democracy, and Grassroots Political Struggle 53
4. The People's Struggle Against Amoco Waste-Tech in Mercer County, Missouri 68
5. Lessons from Mercer County 95
6. Wasting the World: Enclosure, Accumulation and Local Environmental Struggles on a Global Scale 115.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [131]-158) and index.
ISBN:
1583670831
OCLC:
50761292

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