Company towns in the Americas
Subtitle: landscape, power, and working-class communities
By: edited by Oliver J. Dinius and Angela Vergara
Series: Geographies of justice and social transformation
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Athens, Ga
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780820333298; 9780820336824
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Company towns in the Americas : an introduction / Oliver J. Dinius and Angela Vergara; title: Social engineering through spatial engineering : company towns and the geographical imagination / Andrew Herod; title: From company towns to union towns : textile workers and the revolutionary state in Mexico / Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato; title: The port and city of Santos : a century-long duality / Fernando Teixeira da Silva; title: Whitened and enlightened : the Ford Motor Company and racial engineering in the Brazilian Amazon / Elizabeth Esch; title: The making of a federal company town : Sunflower Village, Kansas / Christopher W. Post; title: Glory days no more : Catholic paternalism and labor relations in Brazil's Steel City / Oliver J. Dinius; title: Borders, gender, and labor : Canadian and U.S. mining towns during the Cold War era / Laurie Mercier; title: El Salvador : a modern company town in the Chilean Andes / Eugenio Garcés Feliú and Angela Vergara; title: Labor and community in postwar Argentina : the agro-machinery industry in Firmat, Santa Fe / Silvia Simonassi.