Company Towns in the Americas - Landscape, Power, and Working-class Communities

Company towns were the spatial manifestation of a social ideology and an economic rationale. The contributors to this volume show how national politics, social protest, and local culture transformed those founding ideologies by examining the histories of company towns in six countries: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Mexico, and the US.

About the author

Oliver J. Dinius (Editor)
OLIVER J. DINIUS is the Croft Associate Professor of History and International Studies at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of Brazil's Steel City: Developmentalism, Strategic Power, and Industrial Relations in Volta Redonda, 1941-1964.

Angela Vergara (Editor)
ANGELA VERGARA is an assistant professor of history at California State University, Los Angeles. She is the author of Copper Workers, International Business, and Domestic Politics in Cold War Chile.

Product details

• Authors: Oliver J. (EDT)/ Vergara Dinius
• Assisted by: Oliver Dinius (Editor), Oliver J Dinius (Editor), Oliver J. Dinius (Editor), Andrew Herod (Editor), Angela Vergara (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2011
• EAN: 9780820336824
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-3682-4
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: Geographies of Justice and Soc; Geographies of Justice and Soc
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Bevölkerung und Demographie, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Humangeographie, Stadt- und Gemeindeplanung, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban