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Publication details

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Place: Basingstoke

Year: 2012

ISBN (Hardback): 9781349438594

ISBN (eBook): 9781137024671

Full citation:

Marcelo J. Borges, Susana B. Torres (eds), Company towns, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

Company towns

Contents

Company towns

concepts, historiography, and approaches

Marcelo J. Borges, Susana B. Torres

1-40

Form and reform

the garden city of Hellerau-bei-Dresden, Germany, between company town and model town

Marynel Ryan van Zee

41-67

From colonial company town to industrial city

the South Manchuria railway company in Fushun, China

Limin Teh

69-90

"Little storybook town"

space and labor in a company town in colonial Angola

Jeremy Ball

91-110

When ghosts hovered

community and crisis in the company town of Britannia Beach, British Columbia, Canada

Katharine Rollwagen

151-180

Company towns in a transnational commodity chain

social and environmental dimensions of aluminum production in Porto Trombetás, Brazil, and Årdal, Norway

Frank Meyer

181-205

Race and gender in peripheral resource towns

boundaries and boundary-crossings in Tanjung Bara mining camp in Kalimantan, Indonesia

Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt

207-226

Reflections on an Appalachian Camelot

place, memory, and identity in the former company town of Wheelwright, Kentucky, USA

Lisa Perry

227-250