Environmental Inequalities Class, Race, and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana, 1945-1980

Name: Environmental Inequalities Class, Race, and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana, 1945-1980
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ISBN: 9780807845189

ISBN-10: 0807845183

ISBN-13: 9780807845189

Edition: 1995

Authors: Andrew Hurley

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By examining environmental change through the lens of conflicting social agendas, Andrew Hurley uncovers the historical roots of environmental inequality in contemporary urban America. Hurley's study focuses on the steel mill community of Gary, Indiana, a city that was sacrificed, like a thousand other American places, to industrial priorities in the decades following World War II. Although this period witnessed the emergence of a powerful environmental crusade and a resilient quest for equality and social justice among blue-collar workers and African Americans, such efforts often conflicted with the needs of industry. To secure their own interests, manufacturers and affluent white…

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List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 2/20/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 266
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 1.122

Andrew Hurley is a professor of history at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. Hurley is the author of Environmental Inequalities: Class, Race and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana, 1945-1980 and Common Fields: An Environmental History of St. Louis.