商品簡介
Hirt (history, Arizona State U.) presents a history of how the electric grid developed from the early 20th century to the 1970s in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho and British Columbia). He emphasizes the relationship between social goals and profitability, arguing that this history shows "how Americans and Canadians use markets and governing institutions in partnership to achieve social goals." He considers the advent of electrical devices and the subsequent commodification of electricity to power them, the making public of electric utilities in the early 20th century, the transformation that electricity brought to industries and home-life in the Pacific Northwest, the influence and interest of international finance in Pacific Northwest electricity, the energy crisis of the 1970s, and considerations for further energy transformations. His analysis focuses on governments, consumers, energy-providing organizations themselves, but not energy-workers themselves. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
