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Title:

Company towns : labor, space, and power relations across time and continents / edited by Marcelo J. Borges and Susana B. Torres.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

x, 266 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Company towns.

Other Authors:

Borges, Marcelo J. edt
Torres, Susana B. edt

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Reflections on an Appalachian Camelot: place, memory, and identity in the former company town of Wheelwright, Kentucky, USA Lisa Perry. Form and reform: the Garden City of Hellerau-bei-Dresden, Germany, between company town and model town / Marynel Ryan Van Zee -- From colonial company town to industrial city: The South Manchuria Railway Company in Fushun, China / Limin Teh -- "Little storybook town": space and labor in a company town in colonial Angola / Jeremy Ball -- Labor resistance and accommodation among immigrant workers in the oil company towns of Patagonia, Argentina / Susana B. Torres and Marcelo J. Borges -- When ghosts hovered: community and crisis in the company town of Britannia Beach, British Columbia, Canada / Katharine Rollwagen -- Company towns in a transnational commodity chain: social and environmental dimensions of aluminum production in Porto Trombet©Łs, Brazil, and ©rdal, Norway / Frank Meyer -- Race and gender in peripheral resource towns: boundaries and boundary-crossings in Tanjung Bara Mining Camp in Kalimantan, Indonesia / Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt -- Reflections on an Appalachian Camelot: place, memory, and identity in the former company town of Wheelwright, Kentucky, USA Lisa Perry.

ISBN:

1137024666
9781137024664

OCLC:

(OCoLC)783144357

LCCN:

2012288555

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)