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

Author/Contributor(s):	Dinius, Oliver J
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	01/01/2011
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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 U.S.