Company Towns ：Corporate Order and Community

Publication subTitle ：Corporate Order and Community

Author： White Neil  

Publisher： University of Toronto Press‎

Publication year： 2012

E-ISBN: 9781442695764

Subject： K711.9 local annals

Keyword： 社会学,美洲史,大洋洲史,世界史

Language： ENG

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Description

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.

Chapter

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

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