Company towns in the americas: landscape, power, and working-class communities
Éditeur :
University of Georgia Press
ISBN :
9780820333298
Date de publication :
1 janv. 2011
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 1,9 cm
Poids :
522 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.