Countries in the Global North regularly export their environmental harms to countries with developing economies. This may seem beneficial, providing jobs and investment in the latter, whilst outsourcing expensive health and safety commitments in the former. This book argues it puts the health of many people at risk.
Countries in the Global North regularly export their environmental harms to countries with developing economies. This may seem beneficial, providing jobs and investment in the latter, whilst outsourcing expensive health and safety commitments in the former. This book argues it puts the health of many people at risk.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
R. Scott Frey is Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Social Justice at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USA.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction 2. Ecological Unequal Exchange, the Metabolic Rift, and the Treadmill of Production in the World-System 3. Marketing Hazardous Products: Pesticides, Cigarettes, Asbestos, and Leaded Gasoline 4. Displacing Hazardous Production Facilities: The Maquiladora Centers of Northern Mexico and the Export Processing Zones of South China 5. Structuring Hazardous Waste Streams in the World-System: E-Waste in China and Ship Breaking in Bangladesh and India 6. Assessing the Costs and Benefits: A Critical Analysis of the Neo-Liberal Discourse 7. Globalizing Responsibility or Renationalizing Capital in the World-System?
1. Introduction 2. Ecological Unequal Exchange, the Metabolic Rift, and the Treadmill of Production in the World-System 3. Marketing Hazardous Products: Pesticides, Cigarettes, Asbestos, and Leaded Gasoline 4. Displacing Hazardous Production Facilities: The Maquiladora Centers of Northern Mexico and the Export Processing Zones of South China 5. Structuring Hazardous Waste Streams in the World-System: E-Waste in China and Ship Breaking in Bangladesh and India 6. Assessing the Costs and Benefits: A Critical Analysis of the Neo-Liberal Discourse 7. Globalizing Responsibility or Renationalizing Capital in the World-System?
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