Company towns
Subtitle: labor, space, and power relations across time and continents
By: edited by Marcelo J. Borges and Susana B. Torres
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781137024664
Subjects: Company towns
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Company towns: concepts, historiography, and approaches  -- Marcelo J. Borges and Susana B. Torres; title: Form and reform: the Garden City of Hellerau-bei-Dresden, Germany, between company town and model town  -- Marynel Ryan Van Zee; title: From colonial company town to industrial city: The South Manchuria Railway Company in Fushun, China  -- Limin Teh; title: "Little storybook town": space and labor in a company town in colonial Angola  -- Jeremy Ball; title: Labor resistance and accommodation among immigrant workers in the oil company towns of Patagonia, Argentina  -- Susana B. Torres and Marcelo J. Borges; title: When ghosts hovered: community and crisis in the company town of Britannia Beach, British Columbia, Canada  -- Katharine Rollwagen; title: Company towns in a transnational commodity chain: social and environmental dimensions of aluminum production in Porto Trombetás, Brazil, and Årdal, Norway  -- Frank Meyer; title: Race and gender in peripheral resource towns: boundaries and boundary-crossings in Tanjung Bara Mining Camp in Kalimantan, Indonesia  -- Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt; title: Reflections on an Appalachian Camelot: place, memory, and identity in the former company town of Wheelwright, Kentucky, USA-- Lisa Perry.