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UNINA9910458365203321 |
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Titolo |
Company towns in the Americas [[electronic resource] ] : landscape, power, and working-class communities / / edited by Oliver J. Dinius and Angela Vergara |
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Athens, GA, : University of Georgia Press, 2010 |
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1-282-89211-8 |
9786612892110 |
0-8203-3755-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiv, 241 p. :) : ill. ; |
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Collana |
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Geographies of justice and social transformation |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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DiniusOliver J (Oliver Jürgen) |
VergaraAngela <1972-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Company towns - America - History |
Industrialization - America - History |
Social engineering - America - History |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Company towns in the Americas : an introduction / Oliver J. Dinius and Angela Vergara -- Social engineering through spatial engineering : company towns and the geographical imagination / Andrew Herod -- From company towns to union towns : textile workers and the revolutionary state in Mexico / Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato -- The port and city of Santos : a century-long duality / Fernando Teixeira da Silva -- Whitened and enlightened : the Ford Motor Company and racial engineering in the Brazilian Amazon / Elizabeth Esch -- The making of a federal company town : Sunflower Village, Kansas / Christopher W. Post -- Glory days no more : Catholic paternalism and labor relations in Brazil's Steel City / Oliver J. Dinius -- Borders, gender, and labor : Canadian and U.S. mining towns during the Cold War era / Laurie Mercier -- El Salvador : a modern company town in the Chilean Andes / Eugenio Garces Feliú and Angela Vergara -- Labor and community in postwar Argentina : the agro-machinery industry in Firmat, Santa Fe / Silvia Simonassi. |
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UNINA9910458316003321 |
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Autore |
Mosk Carl |
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Trade and migration in the modern world [[electronic resource] /] / Carl Mosk |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2005 |
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1-134-21662-9 |
1-281-15814-3 |
9786611158149 |
0-203-01659-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (281 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge studies in the modern world economy ; ; 55 |
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Disciplina |
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International economic relations |
Globalization |
International trade |
Emigration and immigration - Economic aspects |
Commercial policy |
Emigration and immigration - Government policy |
Infrastructure (Economics) |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [244]-256) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Half Title:Trade and Migration in the Modern; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I; 1 Globalization, trade, and migration; 2 Demographic openness and trade openness; 3 Crossover; 4 Emigration and immigration; Part II; 5 The British connection; 6 A splendid isolation; Part III; 7 Into the maelstrom: the political economy that battled diversity and openness; 8 An open world being born; 9 Conclusions; Appendix A.1 The data; Appendix A.2 The statistical analysis; Notes; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Revolutionized by the growing use of fossil fuels and electricity and the reduced costs of transportation and communications, international trade and migration has received an unprecedented boost in recent years. Using a theory of economic and political gravitation, backed up |
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with both quantitative analysis and qualitative description, Mosk argues that the tendency for trade and migration to flow together is tempered by market forces and political resistance to diversity in migration. This results in a glaring paradox: the political arenas of nation states are divided between embracing and |
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