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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