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: | Electronic books. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One. 'The Old Order Changeth': Industrial Development at Corner Brook -- Chapter Two. 'Worth Dominating?' Industrial Development at Mount Isa -- Chapter Three. 'Praying for a Conflagration': Planned and Fringe Towns -- Chapter Four. Collaborators, Communists, and Casanovas? Labour at Corner Brook and Mount Isa -- Chapter Five. 'If I had to get a factory job I'd be fired': Civic Life and Resident-Company Negotiation -- Chapter Six. 'Personal Relationships and Private Worlds'? Structures of Feeling in Company Towns -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Company towns are often portrayed as powerless communities, fundamentally dependent on the outside influence of global capital. Neil White challenges this interpretation by exploring how these communities were altered at the local level through human agency, missteps, and chance. Far from being homogeneous, these company towns are shown to be unique communities with equally unique histories. Company Towns provides a multi-layered, international comparison between the development of two settlements-the mining community of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia, and the mill town of Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada. White pinpoints crucial differences between the towns' experiences by contrasting each region's histories from various perspectives-business, urban, labour, civic, and socio-cultural. Company Towns also makes use of a sizable collection of previously neglected oral history sources and town records, providing an illuminating portrait of divergence that defies efforts to impose structure on the company town phenomenon. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Company towns |
| ISBN: | 1-4426-9576-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910452410403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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