Company towns in the Americas [electronic resource] : landscape, power, and working-class communities / edited by Oliver J. Dinius and Angela Vergara.
Dinius, Oliver J. (Oliver Jürgen); Vergara, Angela, 1972-
2010
HT121 .C66 2010eb
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Company towns in the Americas [electronic resource] : landscape, power, and working-class communities / edited by Oliver J. Dinius and Angela Vergara.
ISBN
9780820337555 (electronic book)
9780820333298
0820333298
9780820336824
0820336823
Publication Details
Athens, GA : University of Georgia Press, 2010.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 241 p.) : ill., map
Call Number
HT121 .C66 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
307.76/7097
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 (Firmat), Brazil (Volta Redonda, Santos, Fordĺndia), Canada (Sudbury), Chile (El Salvador), Mexico (Santa Rosa, R̕o Blanco), and the United States (Anaconda, Kellogg, and Sunflower City).; Company towns across the Americas played similar economic and social roles. They advanced the frontiers of industrial capitalism and became powerful symbols of modernity. They expanded national economies by supporting extractive industries on thinly settled frontiers and, as a result, brought more land, natural resources, and people under the control of corporations. U.S. multinational companies exported ideas about work discipline, race, and gender to Latin America as they established company towns there to extend their economic reach. Employers indeed shaped social relations in these company towns through education, welfare, and leisure programs, but these essays also show how working-class communities reshaped these programs to serve their needs. [An] introduction and a theoretical essay by labor geographer Andrew Herod provide the context for the case studies and illuminate how the company town serves as a window into both the comparative and transnational histories of labor under industrial capitalism.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Dinius, Oliver J. (Oliver Jürgen)
Vergara, Angela, 1972-
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Geographies of justice and social transformation.
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Company towns in the Americas : an introduction / Oliver J. Dinius and Angela Vergara
Social engineering through spatial engineering : company towns and the geographical imagination / Andrew Herod
From company towns to union towns : textile workers and the revolutionary state in Mexico / Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato
The port and city of Santos : a century-long duality / Fernando Teixeira da Silva
Whitened and enlightened : the Ford Motor Company and racial engineering in the Brazilian Amazon / Elizabeth Esch
The making of a federal company town : Sunflower Village, Kansas / Christopher W. Post
Glory days no more : Catholic paternalism and labor relations in Brazil's Steel City / Oliver J. Dinius
Borders, gender, and labor : Canadian and U.S. mining towns during the Cold War era / Laurie Mercier
El Salvador : a modern company town in the Chilean Andes / Eugenio Garcés Feliú and Angela Vergara
Labor and community in postwar Argentina : the industry of agricultural machinery in Firmat, Santa Fe / Silvia Simonassi.

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