Company Towns : : Corporate Order and Community / / Neil White.

• VerfasserIn: White, Neil,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; Chapter One. 'The Old Order Changeth': Industrial Development at Corner Brook --; Chapter Two. 'Worth Dominating?' Industrial Development at Mount Isa --; Chapter Three. 'Praying for a Conflagration': Planned and Fringe Towns --; Chapter Four. Collaborators, Communists, and Casanovas? Labour at Corner Brook and Mount Isa --; Chapter Five. 'If I had to get a factory job I'd be fired': Civic Life and Resident-Company Negotiation --; Chapter Six. 'Personal Relationships and Private Worlds'? Structures of Feeling in Company Towns --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442695764
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442695764
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Neil White.

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.