Light Industry: Toxic Waste and Pastoral Capitalism

California Regional Water Quality Control Board, “Covenant and Environmental Restriction of Property: 844 E Charleston Road, Palo Alto, California,” January 14, 2015 →

California Regional Water Quality Control Board, “Internal Memo: Advalloy Inc. And Fairchild Camera and Instrument,” January 3, 1990 →

Environmental Protection Agency, Pacific Southwest Region 9, “Cleanup Sites in California” →. Note that the EPA lists sites by city, not county; the specific cities in question are Cupertino, Mountain View, Palo Alto, San Jose, Santa Clara, and Sunnyvale.

David Laws, “Who Named Silicon Valley?” Computer History Museum, January 11, 2015 →

See Natalie Kane, “Silicon Cargo Cults,” Haunted Machines February 29, 2015 →.

Respectively: Farhad Manjoo, “Silicon Valley Has an Arrogance Problem,” Wall Street Journal, November 3, 2013 →; Evgeny Morozov, “Tech Titans Are Busy Privatizing Our Data,” The Guardian, April 24, 2016 →; “Is Silicon Valley Saving the World or Just Making Money?” New York Times, July 22, 2015 →

Louise A. Mozingo, Pastoral Capitalism: A History of Suburban Corporate Landscapes (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011), 11.

John M. Findlay, Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture After 1940 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), 134.

Ibid., 132.

Santa Clara Center for Occupational Health (SCCOSH) and Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC) Records, MSS-2007-04-06, San José State University Library Special Collections & Archives.

David Naguib Pellow and Lisa Sun-Hee Park, Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy (New York: New York University Press, 2002), 73–74.

Margaret Deane, Shanna H. Swan, John A. Harris, David M. Epstein, and Raymond R. Neutra, “Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in Relation to Water Contamination, Santa Clara County, California, 1980–1981,” American Journal of Epidemiology,vol. 129, no. 5, 902.

Santa Clara Center for Occupational Health (SCCOSH) and Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC) Records.

Susanne Rust and Matt Drange, “Google Workers at Superfund Site Exposed,” SFGate, March 19, 2013 →

Michael Malone and Susan Yoachum, “The Chemical Handlers,” Mercury News, April 7, 1980.

See Latanya Sweeney, “Discrimination in Online Ad Delivery,” Communications of the ACM, vol. 56, no. 5, 44–54; and Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Surya Mattu, and Lauren Kirchner, “Machine Bias,” ProPublica, May 23, 2016 →

See James Bridle, “The Secure Transport of Light,” booktwo.org, April 17, 2013 →

Santa Clara Center for Occupational Health (SCCOSH) and Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC) Records.