{"product_id":"empowering-communities-lacy-k-ford-9781643362694","title":"Empowering Communities: How Electric Cooperatives Transformed Rural South Carolina","description":"\u003cp\u003eEarly in the twentieth century, for-profit companies such as Duke Power and South Carolina Electric and Gas brought electricity to populous cities and towns across South Carolina, while rural areas remained in the dark. It was not until the advent of publicly owned electric cooperatives in the 1930s that the South Carolina countryside was gradually introduced to the conveniences of life with electricity. Today, electric cooperatives serve more than a quarter of South Carolina's citizens and more than seventy percent of the state's land area, bringing not only power but also high-speed broadband to rural communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe rise of \"public\" power--electricity serviced by member-owned cooperatives and sanctioned by federal and state legislation--is a complicated saga encompassing politics, law, finance, and rural economic development. \u003ci\u003eEmpowering Communities\u003c\/i\u003e examines how the cooperatives helped bring fundamental and transformational change to the lives of rural people in South Carolina, from light to broadband.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames E. Clyburn, the majority whip of the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina, provides a foreword.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lacy K. Ford, Jared Bailey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1643362690\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781643362694\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/23\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Lacy K. Ford","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43993876824319,"sku":"9781643362694","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ad6cdbbe-47ea-46e7-ab9c-4d870720e5ee.jpg?v=1683326813","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/empowering-communities-lacy-k-ford-9781643362694","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}