Company towns first appeared in Europe and North America with the industrial revolution and followed the expansion of capital to frontier societies, colonies, and new nations. Their common feature was the degree of company control and supervision, reaching beyond the workplace into workers' private and social lives. Major sites of urban experimentation, paternalism, and welfare practices, company towns were also contested terrain of negotiations and confrontations between capital and labor. Looking at historical and contemporary examples from Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia, this book explores company towns' global reach and adaptability to diverse geographical, political, and cultural contexts.

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Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2012

ISBN

9781137024671

Topic

Historia

Subtopic

Historia del mundo

Cover
Company Towns
Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Company Towns: Concepts, Historiography, and Approaches
Chapter 2 Form and Reform: The Garden City of Hellerau-bei-Dresden, Germany, between Company Town and Model Town
Chapter 3 From Colonial Company Town to Industrial City: The South Manchuria Railway Company in Fushun, China
Chapter 4 “Little Storybook Town”: Space and Labor in a Company Town in Colonial Angola
Chapter 5 Labor Resistance and Accommodation among Immigrant Workers in the Oil Company Towns of Patagonia, Argentina
Chapter 6 When Ghosts Hovered: Community and Crisis in the Company Town of Britannia Beach, British Columbia, Canada
Chapter 7 Company Towns in a Transnational Commodity Chain: Social and Environmental Dimensions of Aluminum Production in Porto Trombetás, Brazil, and Årdal, Norway
Chapter 8 Race and Gender in Peripheral Resource Towns: Boundaries and Boundary-Crossings in Tanjung Bara Mining Camp in Kalimantan, Indonesia
Chapter 9 Reflections on an Appalachian Camelot: Place, Memory, and Identity in the Former Company Town of Wheelwright, Kentucky, USA
Notes on Contributors
Index