Company Towns Labor, Space, and Power Relations across Time and Cont
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, reachin
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10.1057/9781137024671 - Company Towns, Edited by Marcelo J. Borges and Susana B. Torres
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Company Towns
10.1057/9781137024671 - Company Towns, Edited by Marcelo J. Borges and Susana B. Torres
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Labor, Space, and Power Relations across Time and Continents
Edited by Marcelo J. Borges and Susana B. Torres
10.1057/9781137024671 - Company Towns, Edited by Marcelo J. Borges and Susana B. Torres
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Company Towns
company towns Copyright © Marcelo J. Borges and Susana B. Torres, 2012.
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Acknowledgments
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1 Company Towns: Concepts, Historiography, and Approaches Marcelo J. Borges and Susana B. Torres 2 Form and Reform: The Garden City of Hellerau-bei-Dresden, Germany, between Company Town and Model Town Marynel Ryan Van Zee 3 From Colonial Company Town to Industrial City: The South Manchuria Railway Company in Fushun, China Limin Teh 4 “Little Storybook Town”: Space and Labor in a Company Town in Colonial Angola Jeremy Ball 5 Labor Resistance and Accommodation among Immigrant Workers in the Oil Company Towns of Patagonia, Argentina Susana B. Torres and Marcelo J. Borges 6 When Ghosts Hovered: Community and Crisis in the Company Town of Britannia Beach, British Columbia, Canada Katharine Rollwagen 7 Company Towns in a Transnational Commodity Chain:
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