Author: Tomas Mac Sheoin
Publisher: Other India Press
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 264
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8185569584
Description
Most of the economic development that has occurred in Asia is toxic in nature, writes Tomas Mac Sheoin in this remarkable documentation of the slow transfer of polluting and hazardous industries from the so-called developed world to the Asian region.
Mac Sheoin’s research focuses on the growth of toxic industry in Japan, China, India, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, South Korea and Hong Kong. But it also chronicles the fierce protests, resistance and rebellion of ordinary people as the toxic invasion threatens their environment and health.
Toxic development is as essential to the Asian economic miracle as the super-exploitation of migrant female workers, military rule, suppression of unions and other political organizations, control of information and censorship, subcontracting and other less celebrated characteristics of Asian industrialization.
Development as mass poisoning
Petrochemicals: Infrastructure for toxic industry
Japan: The original toxic model
Taiwan: Poisoned island
South Korea: Strong state, strong chaebol
Hong Kong and Singapore: Contrasting city states
Thailand: Burning factories, burning opposition
Malaysia: Rapid development, rapid crisis
Indonesia: New order, old problems
China: The last great hope
India: Liberalisation of toxics
Resisting toxic development
Bibliography
Index
Contents
Development as mass poisoning
Petrochemicals: Infrastructure for toxic industry
Japan: The original toxic model
Taiwan: Poisoned island
South Korea: Strong state, strong chaebol
Hong Kong and Singapore: Contrasting city states
Thailand: Burning factories, burning opposition
Malaysia: Rapid development, rapid crisis
Indonesia: New order, old problems
China: The last great hope
India: Liberalisation of toxics
Resisting toxic development
Bibliography
Index