الحياة الكهربائية | تنظيم المرافق العامة والنضال من أجل ديمقراطية الطاقة

How workers and customers engage with utilities organizing for action on climate change, energy affordability, and environmental, racial, and economic injustice. "Electric Life" traces the tangled history of Atlanta's unequal development, influenced by racism, and rising electricity consumption, to show how electricity infrastructure shapes everyday life. Nikki Luke examines how everyday relationships with the power company catalyze inclusive collective action for energy democracy. It is also investigating the legal and physical structure of the investor-owned electric utility as a regulated monopoly, and the state Public Service Commission that regulates it. Contemporary collective action for energy democracy asks how to change the electric utility and the systems it runs to ensure energy affordability, provide redress and compensation for persistent environmental and energy injustices, and build a just and equitable energy transition from fossil fuels. By linking urban, environmental, and labor studies, the author shows how these demands for power company change emerge from civil, labor, and environmental rights traditions, for fair treatment from the power company, affordable energy, protection from pollution, and good jobs.