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UNINA9910779204103321 |
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Autore |
White Neil <1976-> |
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Company towns : corporate order and community / / Neil White |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2012 |
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©2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-4426-9577-3 |
1-4426-9576-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Company towns |
Resource-based communities |
Corporations - Social aspects |
Community life |
History |
Case studies. |
Electronic books. |
Corner Brook (N.L.) Economic conditions |
Corner Brook (N.L.) Social conditions |
Corner Brook (N.L.) History |
Mount Isa (Qld.) Economic conditions |
Mount Isa (Qld.) Social conditions |
Mount Isa (Qld.) History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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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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1 'The Old Order Changeth': Industrial Development at Corner Brook -- 2 'Worth Dominating?' Industrial Development at Mount Isa -- 3 'Praying for a Conflagration': Planned and Fringe Towns -- 4 Collaborators, Communists, and Casanovas? Labour at Corner Brook and Mount Isa -- 5 'If I had to get a factory job I'd be fired': Civic Life and Resident-Company Negotiation -- 6 'Personal Relationships and Private Worlds'? Structures of Feeling in Company Towns -- Conclusion. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Neil White challenges the common interpretation of company towns as powerless, dependant communities by exploring how these settlements were altered at the local level through human agency, missteps, and chance. |
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