Company towns : corporate order and community / / Neil White
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| Autore: |
White Neil <1976->
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| Titolo: |
Company towns : corporate order and community / / Neil White
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| Pubblicazione: | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2012 |
| ©2012 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 971.8 |
| Soggetto topico: | Company towns |
| Resource-based communities | |
| Corporations - Social aspects | |
| Community life | |
| Soggetto geografico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | History |
| Case studies. | |
| Electronic books. | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Company towns |
| ISBN: | 1-4426-9577-3 |
| 1-4426-9576-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910806825803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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