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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Early, Steve.     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Early, Steve.       by title:      Refinery town : big ...       by call number:      979.463 E12rt     Search the Web     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.       MARC Display

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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Captain William Spry Public Library Adult Nonfiction 979.463 E12rt Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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