Description
This collection consists of administrative files, correspondence, research, publications, official reports, newspaper clippings,
photographs, notes, congressional testimony, and legislative material concerning these organizations and their mission to
reduce toxins and hazardous waste in the Silicon Valley.
Background
The Santa Clara Center for Occupational Safety and Health (SCCOSH) grew from the efforts of three women's health and labor
rights organizers - Robin Baker, Amanda Hawes, and Pat Lamborn - who had come to focus on the Silicon Valley's largely unrepresented
working-class minorities in the late 1970s. The three met sometime in 1977 at the Pacific Studies Center in Mountain View,
where a small group had been meeting intermittently to discuss occupational health. Not long after, Baker, Hawes, and Lamborn
together applied for and received a workers training grant from the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA),
which they used to fund the Project on Health and Safety in Electronics (PHASE, 1978-1980).
Extent
34 boxes
(34 linear feet)
Restrictions
Copyright is assigned to the San José State University Special Collections & Archives. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Director of Special Collections. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of the Special Collections & Archives. Copyright restrictions may apply to digital reproductions of the
original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
Availability
The collection is open for research.