Chapter 18Ted Smith, Environmental Activist
It has become a cliché that Silicon Valley represents the end of smokestack industries and polluted skies, of antiquated red brick factories and dangerous and authoritarian working conditions. Yes, the pace here is harried and pressured occasionally, but the living is pretty good.
It’s easy to miss some coexisting realities: of houses in San Jose shared by four or five Vietnamese families who work on production lines, struggling collectively to meet one high monthly rent or mortgage; of scores of migrant workers who can be seen from the windows of executive suites, bent over in the few remaining fields, with backaches as old as human toil; of carcinogenic industrial wastes, leaching down through the ...
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