The contents in this series document the activism of the Santa Clara Center for Occupational Health (SCCOSH) through various campaigns in the fields of worker's rights advocacy and occupational safety and health training, particularly within the region's electronics industries. At the group's outset, SCCOSH envisioned itself as representing three constituencies: local labor unions and labor councils, ill and injured workers, and community residents who had been affected by the wildfire industrial development of the Santa Clara Valley since the mid-1970s. One of the group's earliest organizing efforts was a breast cancer screening program for workers working with the industrial solvent trichloroethylene (TCE), which led to the successful "Campaign to Ban TCE" in 1981 and 1982. The TCE campaign used two strategies, pressuring employers directly and litigating through state and federal regulatory agencies, both of which became common elements in later SCCOSH programs. Other formative SCCOSH projects include a telephone worker's consultation service, the Hazard Hotline, managed under the project banner of Electronics Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (ECOSH), and a legal consultation and political activism network, Injured Workers United (IWU), formed in 1983 for electronics workers disabled by chemical exposure.

The Campaign to End the Miscarriage of Justice (CEMJ) CEMJ was launched after the Semiconductor Industry Association and IBM released epidemiological studies finding that the likelihood of miscarriage increased after exposure to glycol ethers during the semiconductor production process. The CEMJ campaign was designed to pressure electronics manufacturers into eliminating certain widely used chemical solvents, including ethylene-based glycol ethers, which occupational health studies linked to increased miscarriages and other reproductive problems among workers.

Toxic Avengers Theater used drama productions to publicize the issues surrounding workplace safety and health. The Theater came about through the Worker Story Process, a model created by SCCOSH and designed to elicit the experiences of workers in order to create better solutions for health and safety in the workplace.