| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 242 pages) : illustrations, maps, digital file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-229) and index. |
| Contents |
1 'The Old Order Changeth': Industrial Development at Corner Brook -- 2 'Worth Dominating?' Industrial Development at Mount Isa -- 3 'Praying for a Conflagration': Planned and Fringe Towns -- 4 Collaborators, Communists, and Casanovas? Labour at Corner Brook and Mount Isa -- 5 'If I had to get a factory job I'd be fired': Civic Life and Resident-Company Negotiation -- 6 'Personal Relationships and Private Worlds'? Structures of Feeling in Company Towns -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Company towns -- Case studies.
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Company towns. |
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Case studies.
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| Subject |
Resource-based communities -- Case studies.
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Resource-based communities. |
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Corporations -- Social aspects -- Case studies.
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Corporations -- Social aspects. |
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Corporations. |
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Community life -- Case studies.
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Community life. |
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Corner Brook (N.L.) -- Economic conditions.
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Corner Brook (N.L.) -- Social conditions.
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Corner Brook (N.L.) -- History.
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Mount Isa (Qld.) -- Economic conditions.
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Mount Isa (Qld.) -- Social conditions.
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Mount Isa (Qld.) -- History.
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HISTORY -- Canada -- General. |
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Economic history. |
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Social conditions. |
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Newfoundland and Labrador -- Corner Brook. |
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Queensland -- Mount Isa. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Case studies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: White, Neil. Company Towns : Corporate Order and Community. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2000 9781442643277 |
| ISBN |
9781442695764 (electronic book) |
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1442695765 (electronic book) |
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1442643277 |
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9781442643277 |
| Standard No. |
10.3138/9781442695764 |
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