Consumer Nation: The True Cost of Technology

Author: Mary Colson
Publisher: Hachette Children's Books
Category: Science, Sciences, The Environment
Age Group: 12-17
Book Format: Paperback

Find out how the things we buy and use every day are produced, often at a cost to workers' health or the environment, and discover how you can shop to change things for the better.

Mary Colson is a very experienced author with numerous titles to her name. Her published subjects include space science, natural history, environmental issues, economics, geography, history and emotional issues. Mary is a trained teacher as well as an author and works closely with schools to develop her non-fiction. Mary lives in Yorkshire in the historic town of Ilkley.

Table Of Contents
1: Purchasing power

2: World wide web

3: Raw materials

4: In a sweat about sweatshops

5: The supply chain

6: Replacing people?

7: PC means poor conditions?

8: Computer children

9: Working women's rights

10: Eat, work, sleep: life in a sweatshop compound

11: Migrant workers

12: Waste matters

13: Designed to dump?

14: Eco-electronics

15: Techno-addicts

16: Living online

17: High-tech health matters

18: Campaigning for change

19: Small steps to big change

20: Are you going to buy it?

21: Techno-world map

22: Glossary

23: Index
About Mary Colson
Mary Colson has written and edited books for children and young adults.

SKU BK-9780750283311
Barcode # 9780750283311
Brand Hachette Children's Books
Artist / Author Mary Colson
Shipping Weight 0.1800kg
Shipping Width 0.190m
Shipping Height 0.010m
Shipping Length 0.250m
Assembled Length 25.000m
Assembled Height 0.600m
Assembled Width 18.600m
Type Paperback

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