Company towns corporate order and community /
White, Neil, 1976-
Company towns corporate order and community / Neil White. - Toronto [Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2012. (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2012). - 1 online resource (xiv, 242 pages) : illustrations, maps, digital file.
Includes bibliographies 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.
9781442695764
Company towns--Case studies.
Resource-based communities--Case studies.
Corporations--Social aspects--Case studies.
Community life--Case studies.
Electronic Books.
F1124 / .C667 2012
Company towns corporate order and community / Neil White. - Toronto [Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2012. (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2012). - 1 online resource (xiv, 242 pages) : illustrations, maps, digital file.
Includes bibliographies 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.
9781442695764
Company towns--Case studies.
Resource-based communities--Case studies.
Corporations--Social aspects--Case studies.
Community life--Case studies.
Electronic Books.
F1124 / .C667 2012