TY  - BOOK
AU  - White,Neil
TI  - Company towns: corporate order and community 
SN  - 9781442695764
AV  - F1124.5.C6 W45 2012eb
U1  - 971.8 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Toronto [Ont.]
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Company towns
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Resource-based communities
KW  - Corporations
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Community life
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Canada
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Communautés dépendantes des ressources
KW  - Études de cas
KW  - Sociétés
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Communauté
KW  - Corner Brook (N.L.)
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - History
KW  - Mount Isa (Qld.)
KW  - Newfoundland and Labrador
KW  - Corner Brook
KW  - Queensland
KW  - Mount Isa
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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