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Company towns corporate order and community / Neil White.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Toronto [Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2012.; (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2012).Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 242 pages) : illustrations, maps, digital fileContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442695764
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • F1124 .C667 2012
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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.
Subject: 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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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction F1124.5.6 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn799730888

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.

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