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Article: Killing Me Softly: Toxic Waste, Corporate Profit, and the Stuggle for Environmental Justice.(Book Review)
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- June 22, 2005
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Girdner, E & Smith, J 2002, Killing me softly: Toxic waste, corporate profit, and the stuggle for environmental justice. Monthly Review Press, New York. ISBN 1-58367-083-1 pp. x + 176 US $16.95 paperback.
The political economy of toxic waste offers examples of the ways in which the capitalist economy and consumer society create problems which most people, most of the time, prefer to ignore. Occasionally, other people at other times choose not to ignore the problems and resist corporations which are looking for a place to deposit the problem. This book outlines the political economy of toxic waste disposal and describes the resistance offered by the people of a ...