Making Microchips Policy, Globalization, and Economic Restructuring in the Semiconductor Industry
- List Price: $55.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Mit Pr
- Publish date: 01/01/1999
Despite its reputation as a clean industry, microchip manufacturing is fraught with hazards. Mazurek describes the environmental by-products of chipmaking, including soil contamination, air and water pollution, and damage to human health. Applying insights from economic geography to questions of how and where companies organize production, she shows how Silicon Valley played a pivotal role in the development of the microchip. Pairing federal environmental data with structural and geographic information on the six firms that continue to build wafer fabs in the United States, she demonstrates 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. In the concluding chapter, Mazurek marshals her findings in a broader analysis of the expansion of global manufacturing and the resultant environmental problems.
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