City of Industry: Genealogies of Power in Southern California
City of Industry: Genealogies of Power in Southern California By Victor Valle
Publisher: Rutgers University Press 2009 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0813545730 | PDF | 3 MB
Publisher: Rutgers University Press 2009 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0813545730 | PDF | 3 MB
City of Industry is a stunning expos on the construction of corporate capitalist spaces. Investigating Industry's archives, including sealed FBI reports, Valle uncovered a series of scandals from the city's founder James M. Stafford to present day corporate heir Edward Roski Jr., the nation's biggest industrial developer. While exposing the corruption and corporate greed spawned from the growth of new technology and engineering, Valle reveals the plight of the property-owning servants, especially Latino working-class communities, who have fallen victim to the effects of this tale of corporate greed.