1. The Toxic Political Economy -- 2. Wasting America: Capitalism, Waste, and the Market in the United States -- 3. Environmental Justice, Democracy, and Grassroots Political Struggle -- 4. The People's Struggle Against Amoco Waste-Tech in Mercer County, Missouri -- 5. Lessons from Mercer County -- 6. Wasting the World: Enclosure, Accumulation and Local Environmental Struggles on a Global Scale