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035 _a(OCoLC)958779503
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082 0 4 _a363.7009748/11
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aSicotte, Diane
_eautore
245 1 0 _aFrom Workshop to Waste Magnet :
_bEnvironmental Inequality in the Philadelphia Region /
_cDiane Sicotte.
264 1 _aNew Brunswick, NJ :
_bRutgers University Press,
_c[2016]
264 4 _c©2016
300 _a1 online resource (256 p.) :
_b2 photographs, 18 maps, 2 figures, 25 tables
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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490 0 _aNature, Society, and Culture
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tFigures --
_tMaps --
_tTables --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction --
_t1. Measuring Environmental Inequalities in the Philadelphia Area in 2010 --
_t2. Theorizing Urban Environmental Inequality --
_t3. The Rise of Industrial Philadelphia --
_t4. Environmental Inequality from 1950 to 1969 --
_t5. The Making of Waste Magnets: Environmental Burdening after 1970 --
_t6. Intersectionality and Environmental Inequality in the Philadelphia Region --
_t7. Toward a “Rust Belt” Theory of U.S. Environmental Inequality --
_tAppendix --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aLike many industrialized regions, the Philadelphia metro area contains pockets of environmental degradation: neighborhoods littered with abandoned waste sites, polluting factories, and smoke-belching incinerators. However, other neighborhoods within and around the city are relatively pristine. This eye-opening book reveals that such environmental inequalities did not occur by chance, but were instead the result of specific policy decisions that served to exacerbate endemic classism and racism. From Workshop to Waste Magnet presents Philadelphia’s environmental history as a bracing case study in mismanagement and injustice. Sociologist Diane Sicotte digs deep into the city’s past as a titan of American manufacturing to trace how only a few communities came to host nearly all of the area’s polluting and waste disposal land uses. By examining the complex interactions among economic decline, federal regulations, local politics, and shifting ethnic demographics, she not only dissects what went wrong in Philadelphia but also identifies lessons for environmental justice activism today. Sicotte’s research tallies both the environmental and social costs of industrial pollution, exposing the devastation that occurs when mass quantities of society’s wastes mix with toxic levels of systemic racism and economic inequality. From Workshop to Waste Magnet is a compelling read for anyone concerned with the health of America’s cities and the people who live in them.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Jun 2024)
650 0 _aEnvironmental degradation
_xSocial aspects
_zPennsylvania
_zPhiladelphia Region.
650 0 _aEnvironmental health
_zPennsylvania
_zPhiladelphia Region.
650 0 _aEnvironmental justice
_zPennsylvania
_zPhiladelphia Region.
650 0 _aHazardous waste sites
_xEnvironmental aspects
_zPennsylvania
_zPhiladelphia Region.
650 0 _aMinorities
_xHealth and hygiene
_zPennsylvania
_zPhiladelphia Region.
650 7 _aSCIENCE / General.
_2bisacsh
653 _aenvironment, EPA, protest, energy, sustainable energy, hydraulic, climate change, conservatism, waste, waste management, philly, philadelphia, pennsylvania, city of brotherly love, factory, factory workers, workshop, sweatshop.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.36019/9780813574226?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813574226
856 4 2 _3Cover
_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780813574226/original
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999 _c200224
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