White, Neil,  1976- <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781442695764 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Company towns--Case studies.<br/>Resource-based communities--Case studies.<br/>Corporations--Social aspects--Case studies.<br/>Community life--Case studies.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F1124  / .C667 2012