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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
City of Industry: Genealogies of Power in Southern California

City of Industry: Genealogies of Power in Southern California

Valle, Victor

Paperback

SpeculationGeneral Political ScienceRegional: West

ISBN10: 0813551927
ISBN13: 9780813551920
Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr
Published: Aug 9 2011
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.70 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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 exposé 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.

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