Growing Up in a Company Town
Author | : Russell R. Elliott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Company towns |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Russell R. Elliott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Company towns |
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Author | : Oliver Jürgen Dinius |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0820336823 |
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, Fordlândia), Canada (Sudbury), Chile (El Salvador), Mexico (Santa Rosa, Río 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.
Author | : Douglas A. Blackmon |
Publisher | : Icon Books |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2012-10-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1848314132 |
A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an 'Age of Neoslavery' that thrived in the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude thereafter. By turns moving, sobering and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals these stories, the companies that profited the most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.
Author | : Dorothy Schwieder |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2005-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 158729415X |
In this unusual blend of chronological and personal history, Dorothy Hubbard Schwieder combines scholarly sources with family memories to create a loving and informed history of Presho, South Dakota, and her family's life there from the time of settlement in 1905 to the mid 1950s. Schwieder tells the story of this small town in the West River country, with its harsh and unpredictable physical environment, through the activities of her father, Walter Hubbard, and his family of ten children. Walter Hubbard’s experiences as a business owner and town builder and his attitudes toward work, education, and family both reflected and shaped the lives of Presho's inhabitants and the town itself. While most histories of the Plains focus on farm life, Schwieder writes entirely about small-town society. She uses newspaper accounts, state and county histories, census data, interviews with residents, and the childhood memories of herself and her nine siblings to create an entwined, first-hand social and economic portrait of life on main street from the perspective of its citizens.
Author | : Dan Dixey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780999107423 |
This book is a four hundred year timeline of events of Marblehead, Massachusetts. There are stories based on the experiences and observations of one family continuously living in Town. William Dixey was a servant of Isaac Johnson and arrived in Naumkeag in 1629. The Dixey family settled in Marblehead and has lived in this coastal town for almost four hundred years. The author is also a descendant of Isaac Allerton, a Mayflower passenger that used Marblehead as a base for his fishing fleet. Along with the timeline and stories, are four hundred and twenty photographs and maps from the author's private collection. Thirty pages of genealogy in the back of the book show connections to most of Marblehead's old families. Hundreds of names are listed, with some families going back to the late 1500s. Old books, documents, town records, probate records, wills, old newspapers, interviews with Marbleheaders, family letters and other family documents were used in writing the book.
Author | : Lee Smith |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781578063505 |
These interviews and profiles tell the story of one woman's discovery of her coal-mining hometown as a potential "literary place" and how she used them to pursue her dream career.
Author | : Philip D. Curtin |
Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Africanists |
ISBN | : 0821416456 |
In the 1950s professional historians claiming to specialize in tropical Africa were no more than a handful. The teaching of world history was confined to high school courses, and even those focused on European history. Philip Curtin developed a sound methodology for teaching world history and, always a controversial figure, revived the study of the history of the Atlantic slave trade. His career stands as an example of the kind of dissatisfaction and struggle that brought about a sea change in higher education. Curtin founded African Studies and the Program in Comparative World History at Wisconsin and Johns Hopkins universities, programs that produced many of the most influential Africanists from the 1950s into the 1990s.Written with economy and telling detail, On the Fringes of History follows Curtin from his beginnings in West Virginia in the 1920s. This memoir, beautifully illustrated with Curtin's photographs, tracks the emergence of American interest and engagement with the wider world and writes an important chapter in the history of twentieth-century academia.
Author | : Marilyn Vos Savant |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2003-10-28 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780393325065 |
Now in paperback, this lovingly written primer imaginatively combines the humor of Mark Twain with the practicality of Dr. Benjamin Spock. Includes hundreds of activities, skills, and experiences, for kids ages 3 to 18.
Author | : Susan Campbell Bartoletti |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780395778470 |
Describes what life was like, especially for children, in coal mines and mining towns in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.