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- Power Politics: Environmental Activism in South Los Angeles
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: Rutgers University Press
summary
In the late 1990s, when California's deregulation of the production and sale of electric power created massive energy shortages a group of environmental justice activists, largely high school students, blocked construction of a power plant in their working-class Mexican and Central American neighborhoods. Power Politics is a study of a grassroots campaign where longtime labor and environmental allies found themselves on opposite sides of a conflict pitting good jobs against good air. Karen Brodkin analyzes how those issues came to be opposed and unpacks the racial and class dynamics that shape Americans' grasp of labor and environmental issues.
Table of Contents
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- Preface and Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-ix
- Introduction
- pp. 1-20
- 1. South Gate Transitions
- pp. 21-45
- 7. Going Public
- pp. 135-157
- 8. Sudden Death
- pp. 158-187
- Conclusion
- pp. 188-206
- References
- pp. 221-228
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813548487
Related ISBN(s)
9780813546070
MARC Record
OCLC
593318047
Pages
256
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No