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Corporate order and community: The dynamics of resource town development in Australia and Canada, 1920--1980.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Corporate order and community: The dynamics of resource town development in Australia and Canada, 1920--1980./
Author:	White, Neil.
Description:	394 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-01, Section: A, page: 0339.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-01A.
Subject:	History, Asia, Australia and Oceania. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NR36043
ISBN:	9780494360439

Corporate order and community: The dynamics of resource town development in Australia and Canada, 1920--1980.
White, Neil.

Corporate order and community: The dynamics of resource town development in Australia and Canada, 1920--1980. - 394 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-01, Section: A, page: 0339.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University (Canada), 2007.

This study highlights the critical but often subtle differences between the local histories of the pulp and paper town of Corner Brook, Newfoundland and the base metal-mining town of Mount Isa in outback Queensland; two company towns that came into being in the early 1920s at the height of global resource town development. My comparison unites the various levels of local history - corporate, political, industrial, urban, labour, civic and everyday social history - to pinpoint important structural differences in the economic stimulus to develop isolated company towns, as well as corporate, industrial, and political processes. It also illuminates the different strategies inhabitants developed to open channels of negotiation with, accommodate themselves to, avoid, and resist company authority. Peeling back the intersecting layers of history and viewing the complex social relations in two dependent industrial enclaves shows that corporations maintained their authority primarily through shifting rounds of negotiation with subordinates, not through domination or control. This comparison then challenges the well-known interpretation of company towns as isolated laboratories of capitalist exploitation whose societies were mainly similar in terms of corporate control, dependence, and the feelings of fatalism the top down structural determinants produced in inhabitants. It shows, on the contrary, that the social orders in these two communities were markedly different from one another, and inherently relational, hegemonic, and mutable. It is a study of how varieties of agency and constraints on the subordinate and powerful created history even in places marked by intense structural inequalities.

ISBN: 9780494360439Subjects--Topical Terms:

626624
History, Asia, Australia and Oceania.

Corporate order and community: The dynamics of resource town development in Australia and Canada, 1920--1980.
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