Company towns [electronic resource] : labor, space, and power relations across time and continents /
Borges, M.editor.
Torres, S.editor.
Company towns first appeared in Europe and North America with the industrial revolution and followed the expansion of capital to frontier societies, colonies, and new nations. Their common feature was the degree of company control and supervision, reaching beyond the workplace into workers' private and social lives. Major sites of urban experimentation, paternalism, and welfare practices, company towns were also contested terrain of negotiations and confrontations between capital and labor. Looking at historical and contemporary examples from Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia, this book explores company towns' global reach and adaptability to diverse geographical, political, and cultural contexts.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; 1 Company Towns: Concepts, Historiography, and Approaches; 2 Form and Reform: The Garden City of Hellerau-bei-Dresden, Germany, between Company Town and Model Town; 3 From Colonial Company Town to Industrial City: The South Manchuria Railway Company in Fushun, China; 4 "Little Storybook Town": Space and Labor in a Company Town in Colonial Angola; 5 Labor Resistance and Accommodation among Immigrant Workers in the Oil Company Towns of Patagonia, Argentina
6 When Ghosts Hovered: Community and Crisis in the Company Town of Britannia Beach, British Columbia, Canada7 Company Towns in a Transnational Commodity Chain: Social and Environmental Dimensions of Aluminum Production in Porto Trombetás, Brazil, and Årdal, Norway; 8 Race and Gender in Peripheral Resource Towns: Boundaries and Boundary-Crossings in Tanjung Bara Mining Camp in Kalimantan, Indonesia; 9 Reflections on an Appalachian Camelot: Place, Memory, and Identity in the Former Company Town of Wheelwright, Kentucky, USA; Notes on Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Company towns first appeared in Europe and North America with the industrial revolution and followed the expansion of capital to frontier societies, colonies, and new nations. Their common feature was the degree of company control and supervision, reaching beyond the workplace into workers' private and social lives. Major sites of urban experimentation, paternalism, and welfare practices, company towns were also contested terrain of negotiations and confrontations between capital and labor. Looking at historical and contemporary examples from Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia, this book explores company towns' global reach and adaptability to diverse geographical, political, and cultural contexts.
World history.
History, Modern.
Social history.
Civilization-History.
America-History.
Economic history.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Modern History.
Social History.
Cultural History.
History of the Americas.
Economic History.