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Company Towns: Concepts, Historiography, and Approaches,as a way to make manufacturing or mineral extraction possible in isolated areas and in places without easy access to established urban centers, and as devices to gain access to a stable labor force. As industrialization and capital investment expanded, company towns also emerged in Latin America, Af

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Labor Resistance and Accommodation among Immigrant Workers in the Oil Company Towns of Patagonia, As and nearby oil towns. The early spring of 1917, however, witnessed a movement of a different kind, signaling the beginning of important social transformations. A diverse, multiethnic group of oil workers from the state-owned company town took to the streets of Comodoro Rivadavia asking for improve

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Company Towns in a Transnational Commodity Chain: Social and Environmental Dimensions of Aluminum Prks clustered around one commodity within the world economy” that are “situationally specific, socially constructed, and locally integrated, underscoring the social embeddedness of economic organization.”. At opposite ends of the global aluminum commodity chain, the company towns of Porto Trombetás

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Race and Gender in Peripheral Resource Towns: Boundaries and Boundary-Crossings in Tanjung Bara Min and gender complicate the picture and create new spatial boundaries. This chapter locates itself at the intersection of larger theoretical and disciplinary fields from which it borrows for explanation of social and gender phenomena: the geographical insights on gated communities and their elaborati

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Reflections on an Appalachian Camelot: Place, Memory, and Identity in the Former Company Town of Wh signaled the beginning of a period of marked decline for the town, an almost inevitable bust of the “boom and bust cycle” so common in towns dependent on extractive industries for their survival. The town still exists, but the communities that were and are Wheelwright could not be more different. T

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Traute Meyer PhD,Birgit Pfau-Effingerlan interior, the local trading economy declined while a new sugar industry developed on the plains surrounding Catumbela, based on irrigation from the Catumbela River and favorable tariff access to the Portuguese market.