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Company Towns

Labor, Space, and Power Relations across Time and Continents

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  1. Marcelo J. Borges
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  2. Susana B. Torres
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Company Towns: Concepts, Historiography, and Approaches

    • Marcelo J. Borges, Susana B. Torres
    Pages 1-40

  3. Form and Reform: The Garden City of Hellerau-bei-Dresden, Germany, between Company Town and Model Town

    • Marynel Ryan Van Zee
    Pages 41-67

  4. From Colonial Company Town to Industrial City: The South Manchuria Railway Company in Fushun, China

    • Limin Teh
    Pages 69-90

  5. “Little Storybook Town”: Space and Labor in a Company Town in Colonial Angola

    • Jeremy Ball
    Pages 91-110

  6. Labor Resistance and Accommodation among Immigrant Workers in the Oil Company Towns of Patagonia, Argentina

    • Susana B. Torres, Marcelo J. Borges
    Pages 111-149

  7. When Ghosts Hovered: Community and Crisis in the Company Town of Britannia Beach, British Columbia, Canada

    • Katharine Rollwagen
    Pages 151-180

  8. Company Towns in a Transnational Commodity Chain: Social and Environmental Dimensions of Aluminum Production in Porto Trombetás, Brazil, and Årdal, Norway

    • Frank Meyer
    Pages 181-205

  9. Race and Gender in Peripheral Resource Towns: Boundaries and Boundary-Crossings in Tanjung Bara Mining Camp in Kalimantan, Indonesia

    • Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
    Pages 207-226

  10. Reflections on an Appalachian Camelot: Place, Memory, and Identity in the Former Company Town of Wheelwright, Kentucky, USA

    • Lisa Perry
    Pages 227-250

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 251-266
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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.

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JEREMY BALL Assistant Professor of History, Dickinson College, USA KUNTALA LAHIRI-DUTT Fellow in the Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program, Australia National University FRANK MEYER Professor of Diversity Studies, Oslo University College, Norway LISA PERRY Director, Wheelwright Historical Society KATHARINE ROLLWAGEN Doctoral Candidate in History, University of Ottawa, Canada LIMIN TEH Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, University of Chicago, Canada MARYNEL RYAN VAN ZEE Associate Professor of History, University of Minnesota, Morris, USA

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