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Toxic Town: IBM, Pollution, and Industrial Risks
Peter C. Little
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Description for Toxic Town: IBM, Pollution, and Industrial Risks
Paperback.
Shows the risks of high-tech pollution through a study of an IBM plant's effects on a New York town
In 1924, IBM built its first plant in Endicott, New York. Now, Endicott is a contested toxic waste site. With its landscape thoroughly contaminated by carcinogens, Endicott is the subject of one of the nation’s largest corporate-state mitigation efforts. Yet despite the efforts of IBM and the U.S. government, Endicott residents remain skeptical that the mitigation systems employed were designed with their best interests at heart.
In Toxic Town, Peter C. Little tracks and critically diagnoses the experiences ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
New York University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814770924
SKU
V9780814770924
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Ref
99-50
About Peter C. Little
Peter C. Little is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rhode Island College. He is the author of Toxic Town: IBM, Pollution, and Industrial Risks (NYU Press, 2014).
Reviews for Toxic Town: IBM, Pollution, and Industrial Risks
This carefully crafted ethnographic account affirms the deep and adverse footprint of market-based industrial production on contemporary human lives and communities. By exploring the personal experience of exposure to the toxic risk produced by irresponsible corporate actions in a contaminated community, Little tells the occupational and environment story of our times: deindustrialization has left behind doubly damaged communities but helped ... Read more