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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 homo...

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Autor principal: White, Neil (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
Temas:
Community life > Case studies.
Company towns > Case studies.
Corporations > Social aspects > Case studies.
Resource-based communities > Case studies.
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HISTORY / Canada / General.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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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