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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.

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  1. Title Page
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  1. Copyright
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  1. Contents
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  1. Preface and Acknowledgments
  2. pp. vii-ix
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-20
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  1. 1. South Gate Transitions
  2. pp. 21-45
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  1. 2. Environmental Justice and Communities for a Better Environment
  2. pp. 46-58
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  1. 3. Creating an Environmental Justice Campaign
  2. pp. 59-75
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  1. 4. Sunlaw’s New Pollution Control Technology
  2. pp. 76-94
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  1. 5. The Perfect Storm: South Gate Politics and the Makings of a Pro-Plant Coalition
  2. pp. 95-112
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  1. 6. Finding Traction at South Gate High School
  2. pp. 113-134
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  1. 7. Going Public
  2. pp. 135-157
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  1. 8. Sudden Death
  2. pp. 158-187
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  1. Conclusion
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  1. Epilogue
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  1. Notes
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  1. References
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  1. Index
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