Refinery Town by Steve Early7/3/2023 In Refinery Town, Early chronicles the fifteen years of successful community organizing that raised the local minimum wage, defeated a casino development project, challenged home foreclosures and evictions, and sought fair taxation of Big Oil. It had one of the highest homicide rates per capita in the country and a jobless rate twice the national average.īut in 2012, when veteran labor reporter Steve Early moved from New England to Richmond, he discovered a city struggling to remake itself. This largely nonwhite, working-class city of one hundred thousand suffered from poverty, pollution, and poorly funded public services. Home to one of the largest oil refineries in the state, Richmond, California, was once a typical company town dominated by Chevron.
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