Abstract This article argues that labor activists initiated Silicon Valley’s antitoxics movement and were the driving force behind environmental remediation in the region in the first half of the 1980s. In order to unionize semiconductor plants, activists associated with SCCOSH and United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers, a left-wing union, attacked corporate negligence regarding worker safety and health. SCCOSH later allied itself with the Central Labor Council of Santa Clara County to push for the cleanup of aquifers contaminated by the semiconductor industry. The activists ultimately failed to organize Silicon Valley, but their campaigns led to a revolution in safety among microelectronics firms and to large-scale remediation efforts conducted under the EPA’s Superfund program.

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从洁净室到脏水：劳动力、半导体公司以及硅谷对污染和工作场所危害的斗争

摘要 本文认为，劳工积极分子发起了硅谷的反毒运动，是 80 年代前半期该地区环境整治的推动力。为了联合半导体工厂，与 SCCOSH 和 United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers（左翼工会）有关联的激进分子抨击企业在工人安全和健康方面的疏忽。SCCOSH 后来与圣克拉拉县中央劳工委员会结盟，推动清理被半导体行业污染的含水层。激进分子最终未能组织硅谷，但他们的活动导致了微电子公司之间的安全革命，并在 EPA 的超级基金计划下进行了大规模的补救工作。