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Company towns : corporate order and community / / Neil White



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Autore: White Neil <1976-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Company towns : corporate order and community / / Neil White Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4426-9577-3
1-4426-9576-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910806825803321
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