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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: White, Neil, 1976-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2012
Temas:
Company towns > Case studies.
Resource-based communities > Case studies.
Corporations > Social aspects > Case studies.
Community life > Case studies.
Communautés dépendantes des ressources > Études de cas.
Sociétés > Aspect social > Études de cas.
Communauté > Études de cas.
HISTORY > Canada > General.
Community life
Company towns
Corporations > Social aspects
Economic history
Resource-based communities
Social conditions
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.
Newfoundland and Labrador > Corner Brook
Queensland > Mount Isa
Electronic books.
Case studies
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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