The Resource Company towns in the Americas : landscape, power, and working-class communities, edited by Oliver J. Dinius and Angela Vergara
Company towns in the Americas : landscape, power, and working-class communities, edited by Oliver J. Dinius and Angela Vergara
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- 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, Fordlândia), Canada (Sudbury), Chile (El Salvador), Mexico (Santa Rosa, Río 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.; The editors' 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 241 pages)
- Contents
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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
- Isbn
- 9781282892118
- Label
- Company towns in the Americas : landscape, power, and working-class communities
- Title
- Company towns in the Americas
- Title remainder
- landscape, power, and working-class communities
- Statement of responsibility
- edited by Oliver J. Dinius and Angela Vergara
- Subject
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- Sociology & Social History
- America
- Communities - Urban Groups
- Company towns
- Company towns -- America -- History
- Electronic book
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- History
- Industrialization
- Industrialization -- America -- History
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology | Urban
- Social Sciences
- Social engineering
- Social engineering -- America -- History
- Language
- eng
- 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, Fordlândia), Canada (Sudbury), Chile (El Salvador), Mexico (Santa Rosa, Río 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.; The editors' 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
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- Dewey number
- 307.76/7097
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HT121
- LC item number
- .C66 2011eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1972-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Dinius, Oliver J.
- Vergara, Angela
- Series statement
- Geographies of justice and social transformation
- Series volume
- 4
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Company towns
- Industrialization
- Social engineering
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Company towns
- Industrialization
- Social engineering
- America
- Sociology & Social History
- Communities - Urban Groups
- Social Sciences
- Label
- Company towns in the Americas : landscape, power, and working-class communities, edited by Oliver J. Dinius and Angela Vergara
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- mixed
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- 682614251
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 241 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781282892118
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt3q5jtr
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)682614251
- Label
- Company towns in the Americas : landscape, power, and working-class communities, edited by Oliver J. Dinius and Angela Vergara
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- mixed
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- 682614251
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 241 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781282892118
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt3q5jtr
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)682614251
Subject
- Sociology & Social History
- America
- Communities - Urban Groups
- Company towns
- Company towns -- America -- History
- Electronic book
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- History
- Industrialization
- Industrialization -- America -- History
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology | Urban
- Social Sciences
- Social engineering
- Social engineering -- America -- History
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