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Company towns
labor, space, and power relations across time and continents
Abstract
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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concepts, historiography, and approaches
pp.1-40
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137024671_1the garden city of Hellerau-bei-Dresden, Germany, between company town and model town
pp.41-67
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137024671_2the South Manchuria railway company in Fushun, China
pp.69-90
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137024671_3space and labor in a company town in colonial Angola
pp.91-110
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137024671_4pp.111-149
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137024671_5community and crisis in the company town of Britannia Beach, British Columbia, Canada
pp.151-180
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137024671_6social and environmental dimensions of aluminum production in Porto Trombetás, Brazil, and Årdal, Norway
pp.181-205
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137024671_7boundaries and boundary-crossings in Tanjung Bara mining camp in Kalimantan, Indonesia
pp.207-226
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137024671_8place, memory, and identity in the former company town of Wheelwright, Kentucky, USA
pp.227-250
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137024671_9Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2012
Pages: 266
ISBN (hardback): 978-1-349-43859-4
ISBN (digital): 978-1-137-02467-1
Full citation:
Borges Marcelo J., Torres Susana B. (2012) Company towns: labor, space, and power relations across time and continents. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.