Empowering Communities
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Empowering Communities

How Electric Cooperatives Transformed Rural South Carolina

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Empowering Communities

How Electric Cooperatives Transformed Rural South Carolina

About this book

Early 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.

The 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. Empowering Communities examines how the cooperatives helped bring fundamental and transformational change to the lives of rural people in South Carolina, from light to broadband.

James E. Clyburn, the majority whip of the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina, provides a foreword.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. EMPOWERING COMMUNITIES
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. CONTENTS
  6. FOREWORD
  7. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  8. INTRODUCTION
  9. CHAPTER 1. When the Lights Came On: Cooperatives Power the Countryside
  10. CHAPTER 2. The Origins of Electric Cooperatives: Leading the Way for Rural Electrification in South Carolina
  11. CHAPTER 3. Working the Lines: Duty and Danger
  12. CHAPTER 4. Electricity and the Rural Home: Rural Families “Live Modern”
  13. CHAPTER 5. South Carolina’s Electric Cooperatives and the Changing Role of Women, 1950s–1980s
  14. CHAPTER 6. The Politics of Rural Electrification in the 1950s and 1960s: Serving the Needs of Their Members
  15. CHAPTER 7. Public Policy and Electric Power in the Late Twentieth Century
  16. CHAPTER 8. From Water Closets to Weatherization
  17. CHAPTER 9. Cooperative Principles and Member Services
  18. CHAPTER 10. Transparency, Accountability, and the Power of Democracy
  19. EPILOGUE
  20. NOTES
  21. INDEX
  22. ABOUT THE AUTHOR