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Record Nr.

UNINA9910962383903321

Titolo

Company towns in the Americas : landscape, power, and working-class communities / / edited by Oliver J. Dinius and Angela Vergara

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, GA, : University of Georgia Press, 2010

ISBN

1-282-89211-8

9786612892110

0-8203-3755-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 241 p. :) : ill. ;

Collana

Geographies of justice and social transformation

Altri autori (Persone)

DiniusOliver J (Oliver Jurgen)

VergaraAngela <1972->

Disciplina

307.76/7097

Soggetti

Company towns - America - History

Industrialization - America - History

Social engineering - America - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Company towns were the spatial manifestation of a social ideology and an economic rationale. The contributors to this volume show how



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.