Oysters, Macaroni, and Beer - Thurber, Texas, and the Company Store

Informationen zum Autor Gene Rhea Tucker, originally from Killeen, Texas, earned his BA and MA degrees in history from Tarleton State University and the PhD in Translatoratlantic history from the University of Texas at Arlington. While at Tarleton he was a graduate assistant at the W. K. Gordon Center for Industrial History of Texas, a museum documenting the boomtown-turned-ghost town of Thurber. He is a professor at various institutions in Texas.Richard Francaviglia, professor emeritus of history at The University of Texas at Arlington, is the author of numerous books no American history, including Hard Places: Reading the Landscape of America's Historic Mining Districts. Klappentext With a keen eye for context - honed by a career in banking - Gene Tucker reads the pages of ledgers in the same way most historians read diaries or newspapers. In this thoroughgoing study he examines a wealth of company records, interviews, and newspaper accounts, presenting a case study not only of the microcosm of Thurber and TPM&M but of relations between labour and management in industrialising Texas, and a larger story of the complex role of the company store and company town in America. Zusammenfassung A thoroughgoing analysis of the labor history and culture of an American company town.

Product details

• Authors: Gene Rhea Tucker, Gene Rhea/ Francaviglia Tucker
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.09.2012
• EAN: 9780896727687
• ISBN: 978-0-89672-768-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Plains Histories; Plains Histories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Labour, economic and industrial sociology