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Refinery town : big oil, big money, and the remaking of an American city / Steve Early ; foreword by Senator Bernie Sanders.
Van Pelt Library JS1351.R25 E27 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Early, Steve, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Community development.
- History.
- Petroleum industry and trade--Political aspects.
- Company towns.
- Business and politics.
- Municipal government.
- Richmond (Calif.)--Politics and government--21st century.
- Richmond (Calif.).
- Municipal government--California--Richmond--History.
- Business and politics--California--Richmond--History.
- Company towns--California--Richmond--History.
- Petroleum industry and trade--Political aspects--California--Richmond--History.
- Petroleum industry and trade.
- Community development--California--Richmond--History.
- Politics and government.
- California--Richmond.
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development.
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development.
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 222 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Beacon Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- Home to one of the largest oil refineries in the state, Richmond, California, was once a typical company town bankrolled by Chevron. This largely non-white, 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 labour reporter Steve Early moved from New England to Richmond, he witnessed a surprising transformation. In this book, 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 foreclosures, and took on a big oil giant.
- Contents:
- Introduction: from company town to progressive city
- A refiner's fire
- The greening of city hall
- Richmond's community policeman
- Tuesday night cage fights
- An election not for sale
- Celebrating our differences?
- Gentrification and its discontents
- Epilogue: making local progress.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Early, Steve, author. Refinery town.
- ISBN:
- 9780807094266
- 0807094269
- OCLC:
- 948087421
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