Toxic Town : IBM, Pollution, and Industrial Risks /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Little, Peter C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
International Business Machines Corporation.
Hazardous waste sites.
Hazardous waste site remediation.
Ecology.
Computer industry > Environmental aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
Informatique > Industrie > Dechets > Élimination > Aspect de l'environnement > New York (État) > Endicott.
Informatique > Industrie > Aspect de l'environnement > New York (État) > Endicott.
Depôts de dechets dangereux > Restauration > New York (État) > Endicott.
Depôts de dechets dangereux > New York (État) > Endicott.
Computer industry > Waste disposal > Environmental aspects > New York (State) > Endicott.
Computer industry > Environmental aspects > New York (State) > Endicott.
Hazardous waste site remediation > New York (State) > Endicott.
Hazardous waste sites > New York (State) > Endicott.
New York (State) > Endicott.
Endicott (N.Y.) > Environmental conditions.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 of Endicott residents as they learn to live with high-tech pollution, community t.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (264 pages).
ISBN:9780814764510

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