69th STIG PoP Seminar/ From Clean Rooms to Dirty Water: Labor, Semiconductor Firms, and the Struggle over Pollution and Workplace Hazards in Silicon Valley
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Type | Lecture |
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Intended for | General public / Enrolled students / Applying students / International students / Alumni / Companies / University students / Academic and Administrative Staff |
Date(s) | July 5, 2018 10:00 — 11:30 |
Location | Hongo Area Campus |
Venue | Seminar Room A, 12F, Int’l Academic Research Bldg. |
Capacity | 30 people |
Entrance Fee | No charge |
Registration Method | Advance registration required
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Contact | Science, Technology, and Innovation Governance (STIG) UTokyo Education Program STIG☆pp.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Replace☆with@) |
Labor activists often associated with the communist party initiated Silicon Valley’s antitoxics movement and were the driving force behind environmental remediation in the region in the first half of the 1980s. In order to unionize semiconductor plants, activists associated with SCCOSH and United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers, a left-wing union, attacked corporate negligence regarding worker safety and health. SCCOSH later allied itself with the Central Labor Council of Santa Clara County to push for the cleanup of aquifers contaminated by the semiconductor industry. The activists ultimately failed to organize Silicon Valley, but their campaigns led to a revolution in safety among microelectronics firms and to large-scale remediation efforts conducted under the EPA’s Superfund program.
Language: English
Lecturer: Prof. Christophe Lécuyer
History of Science and Technology
Sorbonne Université
Language: English
Lecturer: Prof. Christophe Lécuyer
History of Science and Technology
Sorbonne Université