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Company towns in the Americas : landscape, power, and working-class communities / edited by Oliver J. Dinius and Angela Vergara.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Geographies of justice and social transformation.
- Geographies of justice and social transformation
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Company towns--America--History.
- Company towns.
- Industrialization--America--History.
- Industrialization.
- Social engineering--America--History.
- Social engineering.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 241 p. :) ill. ;
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, GA : University of Georgia Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Mexico, and the U.S.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-89211-8
- 9786612892110
- 0-8203-3755-2
- OCLC:
- 682614251
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