Company Towns - Corporate Order and Community

Informationen zum Autor Neil White is a Resolution Manager with Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acronyms and Abbreviated Titles Images Acknowledgments Introduction The Old Order Changeth: Industrial Development at Corner Brook Worth Dominating? Industrial Development at Mount Isa Praying For A Conflagration: Planned and Fringe Towns Collaborators, Communists and Casanovas? Labour at Corner Brook and Mount Isa If I Had To Get A Factory Job I'd Be Fired: Civic Life And Resident-Company Negotiation Personal Relationships and Private Worlds? Structures of Feeling in Company Towns Conclusion Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: White, Neil White, Neilq White
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.05.2012
• EAN: 9781442643277
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-4327-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries