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Company towns first appeared in Europe and North America with the industrial revolution and followed the expansion of capital to frontier societies, colonies, and new nations. Their common feature was the degree of company control and supervision, reaching beyond the workplace into workers' private and social lives. Major sites of urban experimentation, paternalism, and welfare practices, company towns were also contested terrain of negotiations and confrontations between capital and labor. Looking at historical and contemporary examples from Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia, this book explores company towns' global reach and adaptability to diverse geographical, political, and cultural contexts.
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About the authors
JEREMY BALL Assistant Professor of History, Dickinson College, USA
KUNTALA LAHIRI-DUTT Fellow in the Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program, Australia National University
FRANK MEYER Professor of Diversity Studies, Oslo University College, Norway
LISA PERRY Director, Wheelwright Historical Society
KATHARINE ROLLWAGEN Doctoral Candidate in History, University of Ottawa, Canada
LIMIN TEH Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, University of Chicago, Canada
MARYNEL RYAN VAN ZEE Associate Professor of History, University of Minnesota, Morris, USA
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Book Title: Company Towns
Book Subtitle: Labor, Space, and Power Relations across Time and Continents
Editors: Marcelo J. Borges, Susana B. Torres
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137024671
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-02466-4Published: 16 August 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-43859-4Published: 16 August 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-02467-1Published: 16 August 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 276
Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History, Modern History, Social History, Cultural History, History of the Americas, Economic History