"A project of the Boston Capitalism, nature, socialism editorial group." Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to the democracy and ecology series / James O'Connor -- The struggle for ecological democracy and environmental justice / Daniel Faber -- The political ecology of American capitalism : new challenges for the environmental justice movement / Daniel Faber -- Dying for a living : workers, production, and the environment / Charles Levenstein and John Wooding -- Risk and justice : capitalist production and the environment / Rodger C. Field -- Environmental justice from the grassroots : reflections on history, gender, and expertise / Giovanna Di Chiro -- Popular epidemiology and the struggle for community health in the environmental justice movement / Patrick Novotny -- The network for environmental and economic justice in the Southwest : an interview with Richard Moore / Paul Almeida -- The limits of environmentalism without class : lessons from the ancient forest struggle in the Pacific Northwest / John Bellamy Foster -- Remapping North American environmentalism : contending visions and divergent practices in the fight over NAFTA / Michael Dreiling -- Earth first! in Northern California : an interview with Judi Bari / Douglas Bevington -- Racism and resource colonization / Al Gedicks -- Ecological legitimacy and cultural essentialism : Hispano grazing in the Southwest / Laura Pulido -- The "brown" and the "green" revisited : Chicanos and environmental politics in the upper Rio Grande / Devon Pe na and Maria Mondragon-Valdez.