Electricity as new India's "strategic railway" -- Maharashtra and the politics of selective rural development -- Extractive industrialization and limited electrification in Odisha -- Social movements and electric populism in Andhra Pradesh -- Conclusion : "electricity for all"

Long considered an urban phenomenon, industrialization also transformed the American countryside. Lou Martin weaves the narrative of how the relocation of steel and pottery factories to Hancock County, West Virginia, created a rural and small-town working class - and what that meant for...