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

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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 recent urban The united states. Hurley’s study specializes in the steel mill community of Gary, Indiana, a city that was once sacrificed, like a thousand other American places, to industrial priorities within the decades following World War II. Even though 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 continuously conflicted with the needs of industry. To protected their own interests, manufacturers and affluent white suburbanites exploited divisions of race and class, and the poor continuously found themselves trapped in deteriorating neighborhoods and exposed to dangerous levels of industrial pollution. In telling the story of Gary, Hurley reveals liberal capitalism’s difficulties in reconciling concerns about social justice and quality of life with the imperatives of economic growth. He also shows that the power to mold the urban landscape was once intertwined being able to govern social relations.

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