Company towns : corporate order and community / Neil White.
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TextPublication details: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2012 2012)Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 242 pages) : illustrations, maps, digital fileContent type: - text
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- 9781442695764
- 1442695765
- 1442643277
- 9781442643277
- Company towns -- Case studies
- Resource-based communities -- Case studies
- Corporations -- Social aspects -- Case studies
- Community life -- Case studies
- Corner Brook (N.L.) -- Economic conditions
- Corner Brook (N.L.) -- Social conditions
- Corner Brook (N.L.) -- History
- Mount Isa (Qld.) -- Economic conditions
- Mount Isa (Qld.) -- Social conditions
- Mount Isa (Qld.) -- History
- HISTORY -- Canada -- General
- Community life
- Company towns
- Corporations -- Social aspects
- Economic history
- Resource-based communities
- Social conditions
- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Corner Brook
- Queensland -- Mount Isa
- Communautés dépendantes des ressources -- Études de cas
- Sociétés -- Aspect social -- Études de cas
- Communauté -- Études de cas
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- F1124.5.C6 W45 2012eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-229) and index.
1 'The Old Order Changeth': Industrial Development at Corner Brook -- 2 'Worth Dominating?' Industrial Development at Mount Isa -- 3 'Praying for a Conflagration': Planned and Fringe Towns -- 4 Collaborators, Communists, and Casanovas? Labour at Corner Brook and Mount Isa -- 5 'If I had to get a factory job I'd be fired': Civic Life and Resident-Company Negotiation -- 6 'Personal Relationships and Private Worlds'? Structures of Feeling in Company Towns -- Conclusion.
Neil White challenges the common interpretation of company towns as powerless, dependant communities by exploring how these settlements were altered at the local level through human agency, missteps, and chance.
English.
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