Company Towns: Labor, Space, and Power Relations Across Time and Continents - Hardcover

by M. Borges (Editor), S. Torres (Editor)

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.

Author Biography

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