Author: Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). Institute of Local Government
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
This report is an attempt to make public some information on 155 single-enterprise communities in Canada. This report records many aspects of single-enterprise communities and analyzes some aspects in which they differ from the general run of Canadian towns.
Single-enterprise Communities in Canada
Author: Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). Institute of Local Government
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
This report is an attempt to make public some information on 155 single-enterprise communities in Canada. This report records many aspects of single-enterprise communities and analyzes some aspects in which they differ from the general run of Canadian towns.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
This report is an attempt to make public some information on 155 single-enterprise communities in Canada. This report records many aspects of single-enterprise communities and analyzes some aspects in which they differ from the general run of Canadian towns.
Work Camps and Company Towns in Canada and the U.S.
Author: Rolf Knight
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Company towns
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Company towns
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
New Communities
Author: United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
New Communities in Canada
Author: Norman Pressman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New towns
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New towns
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
New Communities
Author: United States. Housing and Home Finance Agency. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Company Towns in the Americas
Author: Oliver Jürgen Dinius
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820336823
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
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 (Firmat), Brazil (Volta Redonda, Santos, Fordl ndia), Canada (Sudbury), Chile (El Salvador), Mexico (Santa Rosa, R o Blanco), and the United States (Anaconda, Kellogg, and Sunflower City). Company towns across the Americas played similar economic and social roles. They advanced the frontiers of industrial capitalism and became powerful symbols of modernity. They expanded national economies by supporting extractive industries on thinly settled frontiers and, as a result, brought more land, natural resources, and people under the control of corporations. U.S. multinational companies exported ideas about work discipline, race, and gender to Latin America as they established company towns there to extend their economic reach. Employers indeed shaped social relations in these company towns through education, welfare, and leisure programs, but these essays also show how working-class communities reshaped these programs to serve their needs. The editors' introduction and a theoretical essay by labor geographer Andrew Herod provide the context for the case studies and illuminate how the company town serves as a window into both the comparative and transnational histories of labor under industrial capitalism.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820336823
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
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 (Firmat), Brazil (Volta Redonda, Santos, Fordl ndia), Canada (Sudbury), Chile (El Salvador), Mexico (Santa Rosa, R o Blanco), and the United States (Anaconda, Kellogg, and Sunflower City). Company towns across the Americas played similar economic and social roles. They advanced the frontiers of industrial capitalism and became powerful symbols of modernity. They expanded national economies by supporting extractive industries on thinly settled frontiers and, as a result, brought more land, natural resources, and people under the control of corporations. U.S. multinational companies exported ideas about work discipline, race, and gender to Latin America as they established company towns there to extend their economic reach. Employers indeed shaped social relations in these company towns through education, welfare, and leisure programs, but these essays also show how working-class communities reshaped these programs to serve their needs. The editors' introduction and a theoretical essay by labor geographer Andrew Herod provide the context for the case studies and illuminate how the company town serves as a window into both the comparative and transnational histories of labor under industrial capitalism.
Company Towns
Author: Neil White
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442695773
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Company towns are often portrayed as powerless communities, fundamentally dependent on the outside influence of global capital. Neil White challenges this interpretation by exploring how these communities were altered at the local level through human agency, missteps, and chance. Far from being homogeneous, these company towns are shown to be unique communities with equally unique histories. Company Towns provides a multi-layered, international comparison between the development of two settlements—the mining community of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia, and the mill town of Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada. White pinpoints crucial differences between the towns' experiences by contrasting each region's histories from various perspectives—business, urban, labour, civic, and socio-cultural. Company Towns also makes use of a sizable collection of previously neglected oral history sources and town records, providing an illuminating portrait of divergence that defies efforts to impose structure on the company town phenomenon.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442695773
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Company towns are often portrayed as powerless communities, fundamentally dependent on the outside influence of global capital. Neil White challenges this interpretation by exploring how these communities were altered at the local level through human agency, missteps, and chance. Far from being homogeneous, these company towns are shown to be unique communities with equally unique histories. Company Towns provides a multi-layered, international comparison between the development of two settlements—the mining community of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia, and the mill town of Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada. White pinpoints crucial differences between the towns' experiences by contrasting each region's histories from various perspectives—business, urban, labour, civic, and socio-cultural. Company Towns also makes use of a sizable collection of previously neglected oral history sources and town records, providing an illuminating portrait of divergence that defies efforts to impose structure on the company town phenomenon.
At the End of the Shift
Author: Matt Bray
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459719670
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Mining has played a formative role in the history of Northern Ontario. It has been one of the key generators of wealth in the area since the mid-19th century, and is also responsible for much of the urban development of Ontario's northland. The twelve papers published here came out of the second annual confernce of Northern Ontario research and development held in 1990. The papers are grouped into four sections, the early years; the era of government intervention; the present and finally the future and what can be done to maintain the commnities.
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459719670
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Mining has played a formative role in the history of Northern Ontario. It has been one of the key generators of wealth in the area since the mid-19th century, and is also responsible for much of the urban development of Ontario's northland. The twelve papers published here came out of the second annual confernce of Northern Ontario research and development held in 1990. The papers are grouped into four sections, the early years; the era of government intervention; the present and finally the future and what can be done to maintain the commnities.
The Developing Canadian Community
Author: S.D. Clark
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442654775
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
Professor Clark's thesis is that the development of Canadian society can only be understood by examining how changes taking place in the underlying structure of the Canadian community. The first part of the book examines the development of forms of social organization in Canada over the years 1600 to 1920. In the second and third sections the focus shifts to the general forces in Canadian society shaping the character of institutions and forms of social life. The book concludes with four essays devoted to an examination of the relationship of sociology to history. This volume demonstrates the mutually enriching value of a sociological-historical approach, and is very useful for those interested in communities, social change and organization, and the structure of Canadian society.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442654775
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
Professor Clark's thesis is that the development of Canadian society can only be understood by examining how changes taking place in the underlying structure of the Canadian community. The first part of the book examines the development of forms of social organization in Canada over the years 1600 to 1920. In the second and third sections the focus shifts to the general forces in Canadian society shaping the character of institutions and forms of social life. The book concludes with four essays devoted to an examination of the relationship of sociology to history. This volume demonstrates the mutually enriching value of a sociological-historical approach, and is very useful for those interested in communities, social change and organization, and the structure of Canadian society.
Shaping the Urban Landscape
Author: Gilbert Arthur Stelter
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0886290023
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
This is a collection of essays focusing on the process of city-building in Canada. The authors weigh the relative broad social, economic and technological trends as they attempt to explain the shaping of this urban landscape.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0886290023
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
This is a collection of essays focusing on the process of city-building in Canada. The authors weigh the relative broad social, economic and technological trends as they attempt to explain the shaping of this urban landscape.