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Language: en
Pages: 297
Pages: 297
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-01 - Publisher: University of Washington Press
“Company town.” The words evoke images of rough-and-tumble loggers and gritty miners, of dreary shacks in isolated villages, of wages paid in scrip good onl
Language: en
Pages: 344
Pages: 344
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987 - Publisher:
Potlatch, Idaho, was a company town--a community completely owned by a large lumber firm. This is the story of the Pacific Northwest in microcosm: the exploitat
Language: en
Pages: 393
Pages: 393
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-08-16 - Publisher: Springer
Company towns first appeared in Europe and North America with the industrial revolution and followed the expansion of capital to frontier societies, colonies, a
Language: en
Pages: 260
Pages: 260
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-01-01 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Company towns were the spatial manifestation of a social ideology and an economic rationale. The contributors to this volume show how national politics, social
Language: en
Pages: 257
Pages: 257
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-07 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Company towns are often portrayed as powerless communities, fundamentally dependent on the outside influence of global capital. Neil White challenges this inter
