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Company Towns in the Americas : Landscape, Power, and Working-Class Communities.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation SeriesPublisher: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (260 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780820337555
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Company Towns in the AmericasDDC classification:
  • 307.76/7097
LOC classification:
  • HT121.C66 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- "Company Towns in the Americas: An Introduction" -- CHAPTER 1 "Social Engineering through Spatial Engineering: Company Towns and the Geographical Imagination" -- CHAPTER 2 "From Company Towns to Union Towns: Textile Workers and the Revolutionary State in Mexico" -- CHAPTER 3 "The Port and the City of Santos: A Century-Long Duality" -- CHAPTER 4 "Whitened and Enlightened: The Ford Motor Company and Racial Engineering in the Brazilian Amazon" -- CHAPTER 5 "The Making of a Federal Company Town: Sunflower Village, Kansas" -- CHAPTER 6 "Glory Days No More: Catholic Paternalism and Labor Relations in Brazil's Steel City" -- CHAPTER 7 "Borders, Gender, and Labor: Canadian and U.S. Mining Towns during the Cold War Era" -- CHAPTER 8 "El Salvador: A Modern Company Town in the Chilean Andes" -- CHAPTER 9 "Labor and Community in Postwar Argentina: The Industry of Agricultural Machinery in Firmat, Santa Fe" -- Selected Bibliography on Company Towns in the Americas -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
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.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- "Company Towns in the Americas: An Introduction" -- CHAPTER 1 "Social Engineering through Spatial Engineering: Company Towns and the Geographical Imagination" -- CHAPTER 2 "From Company Towns to Union Towns: Textile Workers and the Revolutionary State in Mexico" -- CHAPTER 3 "The Port and the City of Santos: A Century-Long Duality" -- CHAPTER 4 "Whitened and Enlightened: The Ford Motor Company and Racial Engineering in the Brazilian Amazon" -- CHAPTER 5 "The Making of a Federal Company Town: Sunflower Village, Kansas" -- CHAPTER 6 "Glory Days No More: Catholic Paternalism and Labor Relations in Brazil's Steel City" -- CHAPTER 7 "Borders, Gender, and Labor: Canadian and U.S. Mining Towns during the Cold War Era" -- CHAPTER 8 "El Salvador: A Modern Company Town in the Chilean Andes" -- CHAPTER 9 "Labor and Community in Postwar Argentina: The Industry of Agricultural Machinery in Firmat, Santa Fe" -- Selected Bibliography on Company Towns in the Americas -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

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.

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