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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Borges, M
• Torres, S
• Susana B. Torres
• Marcelo J. Borges
• Torres, Susana B.
• Borges, Marcelo J.

Titel

Company Towns: Labor, Space, and Power Relations across Time and Continents

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

New York: Palgrave Macmillan

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 01 02 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. 13 02 Marcelo Borges is an associate professor of History at Dickinson College, where he teaches Latin American history and comparative migrations. He is the author of Chains of Gold: Portuguese Migration to Argentina in Transatlantic Perspective (2009) and of numerous articles on migration and labor history. Susana Torres was an associate professor of History at the Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco and the co-director of the Master's Program in Research Methodology for Social Sciences at the Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral, in Caleta Olivia, Argentina. She is the co-author of Historia de un ferrocarril: De Deseado a Las Heras 1909–1944 (2004) and other works on Argentine labor and immigration history. 02 02 A historical exploration of company towns in a variety of locales in Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Oceania. 04 02 Company Towns: Concepts, Historiography, and Approaches; M.Borges & S.Torres Form and Reform: The Garden City of Hellerau-bei-Dresden between Company Town and Model Town; M.Ryan Van Zee From Colonial Company Town to Industrial City: The South Manchuria Railway Company in Fushun, China; L.Teh 'Little Storybook Town': Space and Labor in a Company Town in Colonial Angola, 1913–61; J.Ball Labor Resistance and Accommodation among Immigrant Workers in the Oil Company Towns of Patagonia, Argentina; S.Torres & M.Borges When Ghosts Hovered: Community and Crisis in the Company Town of Britannia Beach, British Columbia, Canada, 1957–65; K.Rollwagen Company Towns in a Transnational Commodity Chain: Social and Environmental Dimensions of Aluminum Production in Porto Trombetás, Brazil, and Årdal, Norway; F.Meyer Race and Gender in Peripheral Resource Towns: Boundaries and Boundary-crossings in Tanjung Bara Mining Camp in Kalimantan, Indonesia; K.Lahiri-Dutt Reflections on an Appalachian Camelot: Place, Memory, and Identity in the Former Company Town of Wheelwright, Kentucky, U.S.A; L.Perry 19 02 1. TRULY GLOBAL STUDY: This collection approaches the topic of company towns with an unprecedented geographical breadth, from China to Scandinavia to Brazil. 2. CURRENT INTEREST: Company towns are a subject of durable relevance, from the oil fields of Kazakhstan to Google's headquarters near Mountain View, California. 3. LARGER SIGNIFICANCE: Each case study is discussed in terms of other towns in the volume and placed in the context of broader historical trends.