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Power Play

The Fight to Control the World's Electricity

Power Play( )
Author: Beder, Sharon
ISBN:978-1-56584-808-5
Publication Date:Jul 2003
Publisher:New Press, The
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $25.95
Book Description:

As electrification spread across America in the early twentieth century, private corporations moved quickly to reap unprecedented profits from millions of new paying customers. Blocking their path was the widespread view that electricity was a basic need and that its production should be regulated--if not owned outright--by the public. The electricity companies fought back, buying up newspapers, radio stations, and politicians, and flooding the schools with free, pro-industry...
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Book Details
Pages:416
Detailed Subjects: Science / Physics / Electricity
Law / Public Utilities
Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.5 x 9.45 x 1.43 Inches
Book Weight:1.812 Pounds
Author Biography
Beder, Sharon (Author)
While working as a professional engineer, Sharon Beder became interested in the social and political aspects of engineering and returned to school to pursue a doctorate in that field at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Using the development of Sydney's sewer system as a case study, her doctoral research focused on engineering decision-making. She completed her Ph.D. in 1989 and published her research in the book Toxic Fish and Sewer Surfing: How Deceit and Collusion Are Destroying Our Great Beaches.

Beder's work deals mainly with environmental issues, but within that broad field her interests are varied, including environmental politics, the dynamics of environmental/technological controversies, social responsibility, the social aspects of engineering, and trends in both environmentalism and corporate activism. Her book Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism examines the expensive public relations and media campaigns waged by corporations in an effort to prevent the implementation of stricter environmental regulation in Australia, England, the United States, and Canada.

Other titles include The New Engineer Management and Professional Responsibility in a Changing World; The Nature of Sustainable Development; and The Hole Theory: Recent Ozone Depletion Research in the Areas of Medical, Biological and Veterinary Science, Physics, Pharmacy, and Physiology.

Beder has contributed to several books and published numerous articles and papers. She received the Michael Daley award for excellence in science, technology and engineering journalism for an article that appeared in New Scientist.

Several of Beder's books have been used as texts for college courses, and she has developed numerous other educational materials as well, particularly while serving as the Environmental Education Coordinator for the University at Sydney. In 1992, she joined the Science and Technology Studies department at Australia's University of Wollo



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