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Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City

โœ Scribed by Early, Steve

Book ID
108983190
Publisher
Beacon Press
Year
2016
Tongue
en-US
Weight
402 KB
Category
Fiction

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โœฆ Synopsis

The People vs. Big Oil --how a working-class company town harnessed the power of local politics to reclaim their community
Home to one of the largest oil refineries in the state, Richmond, California, was once a typical company town bankrolled by Chevron. This largely nonwhite, working-class city of a hundred thousand had experienced the by-products of decades' worth of poverty, substandard housing, and poorly funded public education. It had one of the highest homicide rates, per capita, in the country and a jobless rate often twice the national average.
But in 2012, when veteran labor reporter Steve Early moved from New England to Richmond, he witnessed a surprising transformation. In Refinery Town , Early chronicles the ten years of successful community organizing in Richmond that raised the minimum wage, defeated a casino development project, created a municipal ID to aid undocumented workers, reduced crime through "community policing," challenged home...

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