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 blocked construction of a
power plant in their working-class Mexican and Central American
neighborhoods. Why did they choose this battle? And how did the
largely high school student activists come to prevail in the face
of statewide political opinion?
"Power Politics" is a rich and readable study of a grassroots
campaign where longtime labor and environmental allies found
themselves on opposite sides of a conflict that pitted good jobs
against good air. Karen Brodkin analyzes how those issues came to
be opposed and in doing so unpacks the racial and class dynamics
that shape Americans' grasp of labor and environmental issues.
"Power Politics'" activists stood at the forefront of a movement
that is building broad-based environmental coalitions and placing
social justice at the heart of a new and robust vision.
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