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UNINA9910962383903321 |
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Titolo |
Company towns in the Americas : 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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ISBN |
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1-282-89211-8 |
9786612892110 |
0-8203-3755-2 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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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 Jurgen) |
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 |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
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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Sommario/riassunto |
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Company towns were the spatial manifestation of a social ideology and an economic rationale. The contributors to this volume show how |
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national politics, social protest, and local culture transformed those founding ideologies by examining the histories of company towns in six countries: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Mexico, and the U.S. |
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