Beschreibung:
Oliver J. Dinius (Editor) OLIVER J. DINIUS is the Croft Associate Professor of History and International Studies at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of Brazil's Steel City: Developmentalism, Strategic Power, and Industrial Relations in Volta Redonda, 1941-1964.
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, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Mexico, and the US.