
Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2012
ISBN (Hardback): 9781349438594
Full citation:
Marcelo J. Borges, Susana B. Torres (eds), Company towns, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
Company towns
Contents
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
Labor resistance and accommodation among immigrant workers in the oil company towns of Patagonia, Argentina
Susana B. Torres, Marcelo J. Borges
111-149
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