ABSTRACT
Rapid upward mobility as a result of pipeline construction did not affect people whose employment was not influenced by expansion or high turnover rates or increased income. One such group was the professional staff at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, whose only pay raises during the pipeline period were cost of living adjustments. The Fairbanks Community Survey conducted by the Institute of Social and Economic Research in the Spring of 1976 asked residents whether they felt they had received the benefits or borne the costs of pipeline construction. Fairbanks is a city of young people--the average age of residents of the Fairbanks North Star Borough in 1970 was 22 years, according to the US Census. Many older persons in Fairbanks had been citizens of the community for a long time. Fairbanks is where they built their homes, raised their children, made their lifelong friends.
