Coos Bay Plundertown, USA


Title Cover Image: Coos Bay

Published in local editions by Al Sandine, Coos Bay Plundertown, USA is a blistering polemical history examining the corporate exploitation and environmental degradation of Oregon’s largest coastal port. The book chronicles how powerful timber and industrial interests, in collusion with local political figures, systematically gutted the region's natural resources and bypassed community oversight to maximize short-term profits. Through sharp critique and detailed local documentation, the text exposes the severe economic and ecological fallout left in the wake of unchecked industrial ambition. A keen insight drawn from the work is how resource-dependent towns are frequently treated by outside corporate forces as disposable sacrifice zones; the narrative reveals that "plundertown" status is not an accidental policy failure, but the predictable end-result of an extractive economic model that privatizes public wealth while socializing long-term environmental ruin.

Author(s): Al Sandine
Document: Book · Paperback · CIRC [ 1 ]
Edition: 1st Edition
Published: 2003
Physical Description: 175 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm
Genre: History
Subjects:

Coos Bay Region (Or.) Economic conditions, Coos Bay Region (Or.) History, Coos Bay, Région de (Or.) Conditions économiques, Coos Bay, Région de (Or.) Histoire, Economic history, History, Oregon Coos Bay Region

Related Places: City of Coos Bay Coos Bay Coos County

 

Circulation

Here are a list of places where this title can be found and the various formats it can be found in.

Collection Resource Available Edition Published Publisher
The Cascade District: Encyclopedia Library Book Paperback 1st Edition 2003 Hancock House, Surrey, B.C., 2003

 

Last updated: 2026-09-13