The Company town : architecture and society in the early industrial age / edited by John S. Garner.

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Garner, John S, 1945-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: OUP E-BooksPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.Description: 1 online resource (245 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

1429407271
9781429407274
1280525835
9781280525834
9786610525836
6610525838

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Company town.DDC classification:

307.76/7/09034 20

LOC classification:

NA9053.C57 C66 1992eb

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Contents:

Merthyr Tydfil and early ironworks in south Wales / Bruce Thomas -- Noisiel-sur-Marne and the ville industrielle in France / John S. Garner -- The company town in Scandinavia / Mats Ahnlund, Lasse Brunnström -- Early New England mill towns of the Piscataqua River valley / Richard M. Candee -- Earle S. Draper and the company town in the American south / Margaret Crawford -- Company towns in the western United States / Leland M. Roth -- Company towns of Chile and Argentina / Olga Paterlini de Koch.

Summary: Company towns - those associated with textiles, mining, or tool manufacturing, for example - can be found worldwide and from antiquity to the present. But with the Industrial Revolution what had been the isolated incidence of such towns became a building phenomenon. This book describes and compares in seven essays the concurrent development and building of selected towns in Europe and the Americas.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-241) and index.

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Company towns - those associated with textiles, mining, or tool manufacturing, for example - can be found worldwide and from antiquity to the present. But with the Industrial Revolution what had been the isolated incidence of such towns became a building phenomenon. This book describes and compares in seven essays the concurrent development and building of selected towns in Europe and the Americas.

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