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Early, Steve.
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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.
Community development -- California -- Richmond -- History.
Richmond (Calif.) -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
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Early, Steve.
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.
Community development -- California -- Richmond -- History.
Richmond (Calif.) -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
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Refinery town : big oil, big money, and the remaking of an American city /
Steve
Early
; foreword by Senator Bernie Sanders.
by
Early
,
Steve
.
Beacon Press, c2017.
Call #:
979.463 E12rt
Subjects
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.
Community development -- California -- Richmond -- History.
Richmond (Calif.) -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
ISBN:
9780807094266
0807094269
Alternate title:
Big oil, big money, and the remaking of an American city
Description:
x, 222 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-222).
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.
Summary:
The People vs. Big Oil how a working-class company town harnessed the power of local politics to reclaim their communit.y 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 foreclosures, and took on a big oil giant. This compelling story of a city remade provides a model for citizens engaged in local politics and community building anywhere.
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