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