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

• Pubblicazione: Athens, GA, : University of Georgia Press, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 241 p. :) : ill.
• Disciplina: 307.76/7097
• Soggetto topico: Company towns - America - History; Industrialization - America - History; Social engineering - America - History
• Altri autori: DiniusOliver J (Oliver Jürgen) VergaraAngela <1972->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Company towns in the Americas
• ISBN: 1-282-89211-8; 9786612892110; 0-8203-3755-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791649603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Geographies of justice and social transformation.