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City of Industry - Genealogies of Power in Southern California (Paperback) Loot Price: R840
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City of Industry - Genealogies of Power in Southern California (Paperback): Victor Valle

City of Industry - Genealogies of Power in Southern California (Paperback)

Victor Valle

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Founded in 1957, the Southern California suburb prophetically named City of Industry today represents, in the words of Victor Valle, ""The gritty crossroads of the global trade revolution that is transforming Southern California factories into warehouses, and adjacent working class communities into economic and environmental sacrifice zones choking on cheap goods and carcinogenic diesel exhaust."""City of Industry" is a stunning expose on the construction of corporate capitalist spaces.

Valle investigated an untapped archive of Industry's built landscape, media coverage, and public records, including sealed FBI reports, to uncover a cascading series of scandals. A kaleidoscopic view of the corruption that resulted when local land owners, media barons, and railroads converged to build the city, this suspenseful narrative explores how new governmental technologies and engineering feats propelled the rationality of privatization using their property-owning servants as tools.

Valle's tale of corporate greed begins with the city's founder James M. Stafford and ends with present day corporate heir, Edward Roski Jr., the nation's biggest industrial developeruco-owner of the L.A. Staples Arena and possible future owner of California's next NFL franchise. Not to be forgotten in Valle's captivating story are Latino working class communities living within Los Angeles's distribution corridors, who suffer wealth disparities and exposure to air pollution as a result of diesel-burning trucks, trains, and container ships that bring global trade to their very doorsteps. They are among the many victims of City of Industry.

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Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: August 2011
First published: August 2011
Authors: Victor Valle
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-5192-0
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Industrial history
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Industrial history
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LSN: 0-8135-5192-7
Barcode: 9780813551920

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