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  title info:
    title: Power and just transitions
    sub title: struggles for a post-coal future in an Appalachian valley
  name:
    name part: Gaventa, John
    name part: 1949-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Schwartzman, Gabe
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2026
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: xvi, 237 pages : maps, charts.
  abstract: Published in 1982, John Gaventa's award-winning Power and Powerlessness examined the dominance of the absentee coal industry in Central Appalachia. Gaventa and Gabe Schwartzman update the story through coal's decline and into the present while focusing on how power relations and community mobilizing have changed and evolved during this era of transition. Their analysis tracks the impact on a place where a fossil fuel-based economy shaped political and social structures for over a century. As they show, new forms of power emerged while old ones remained, and both affected the popular struggle for a future that's both just and more inclusive. Original and timely, Power and Just Transitions merges historical perspective with interviews and engagement to look at how coal's decline impacted power and resistance in an Appalachian community.
  table of contents: Introduction: the challenge of just transitions -- 1. Intersecting inequalities and the failed promise of development -- 2. Setting the context: power, resistance, and the rise and decline of King Coal -- 3. Power and transitions -- 4. Old powerholders cling on: how the coal industry fights to maintain its dominance -- 5. Protecting the hegemony of coal: the rise of the conservative right -- 6. Financialization and the rise of corporate conservatism -- 7. Building collective power from below -- 8. Bottom up meets top down: a new policy moment? -- Conclusion: an interregnum between past and future?
  note: John Gaventa and Gabe Schwartzman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic: Appalachian Region
    topic: Economic conditions
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    geographic: Appalachian Region
    topic: Social conditions
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Poor
    geographic: Appalachian Region
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Power (Social sciences)
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Coal trade
    geographic: Appalachian Region
  classification: HC107.A127 G38 2025
  related item:
    identifier: (OCoLC)1509735374
  identifier: 9780252048555 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 0252048555 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 0252089065
  identifier: 9780252089060
  identifier: 0252046935
  identifier: 9780252046933
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: NhCcYBP
    record creation date: 260118
    record change date: 20260214183805.8
    record identifier: in00005687953
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng