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Company towns in the Americas : landscape, power, and working-class communities /
Company towns were the spatial manifestation of a social ideology and an economic rationale. The contributors to this volume show how national politics, social protest, and local culture transformed those founding ideologies by examining the histories of company towns in six countries: Argentina (Fi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens :
University of Georgia Press,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Geographies of justice and social transformation ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 Garcés Feliú and Angela Vergara
- Labor and community in postwar Argentina : the industry of agricultural machinery in Firmat, Santa Fe / Silvia Simonassi.