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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Company Town"”.
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Company Town
<p>This is a fictional story collection.</p>
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Ledgers of the W.T. Carter and Brother Lumber Company: An Archival Processing Project
<p>The W.T. Carter and Brother Lumber Company began in 1898 and operated until 1968 when it was sold to the U.S. Plywood Corporation. The Polk County, Texas company harvested longleaf pine during a crucial period of development for the Texas economy. The lumber industry was the state’s first large …
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Mineworkers' quality of life in remote communities : a multiple case study in the Brazilian Amazon
… aspects of QOL domains in three communities: the company town, the gate development community and the integrated community. The triangulation of data from qualitative and quantitative methods was used to examine the major QOL factors that should be taken into account by mining companies, local …
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Carbonado: The History of a Coal Mining Town in the Foothills of Mount Rainier, 1880-1937
<p>The history of the coal mining town of Carbonado, Washington was studied. Starting from a brief description of the formation and discovery of coal in Western Washington, the fifty-seven year history of active coal mining was covered in this project. Topics included town leadership, coal mining …
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Gender, Social Networks, and Labor Disputes: Household Archaeology at the Industrial Mine Camp
… it was the sole mine in the region with both a company town and company store. Through comparative analysis with the previously investigated mine camp in the southern Colorado coal fields at Berwind, this thesis examines how camp housing structured the lives of women living at the Industrial …
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Toying with Americanization: The Impact of Corporate Paternalism on Immigrant Children in Early 20th Century Colorado Coal Mining Communities
… their families to remote areas to live in company towns and work in coal mines. The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I) attempted to assimilate these ethnically diverse immigrants into American society. One method was to impart American values onto the children living in these company …
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The once and future steel town: The narrative identities of a local community
… have been three historical narratives: the model company town narrative, the survival narrative, and the betrayal narrative. It also shows that there are three possible future narratives developing: the ghost town narrative, the bedroom community of Pittsburgh narrative, and the revitalization …
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Transcending Space and Time: The emerging urban morphosis around spaceports
… its surrounding local conditions-a futuristic company town. The design approach is derived from a multitude of learnings from the past and later it is curated to envision a futuristic aspect providing solutions for better livelihood of people while also advocating for the surrounding …
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100-Day Exhibition: Labor, Robots, and Corridors
… LABORS Hashima Island was a self-sufficient company town run by Mitsubishi. While being approved as a World Heritage Site as part of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution, it is also a site of forced labor before and during World War II. In 1974, the mines were closed, the island became a ghost …
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Amazon here
… integrated mobility system; Elon Musk's Boring Company privately funds a rapid transit line from O'Hare Airport to downtown; Amazon provides CIA data and security services for sensitive information. Willingly or reluctantly, governments are handing over civic infrastructure to these companies. …
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Dammed If You Don't: The Palmertown Tragedy of 1924 in Collective Memory
… a wall of water and alkali muck engulfed Palmertown, a small community in Saltville, Virginia. Houses were swept away and by the time all of the bodies were pulled from the wreckage, the death toll had reached 19-an immense loss for the tight-knit community. A dam, owned by Mathieson Alkali …
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Itaipú: Gender, Community, and Work in the Alto Paraná Borderlands, Brazil and Paraguay, 1954-1989.
… struggles and their lived experience in the 'company town' and in so-called 'peripheral communities,' into the grand narrative of technological advancement and 'order and progress' embodied by the 'Project of the Century. Rather than being tangential to the story of 'Itaipú,' these …
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On urban fear: privilege, symbolic violence, topophobia: the everyday experiences of middle-class women in Secunda, South Africa
… shape middle-class women's topophobia in the new town of Secunda (with a particular focus on symbolic violence). In Lefebvre's 'terrorist societies' fear becomes latent as citizens seek to maintain status quos which maintain systems of privilege. I demonstrate that one such system is white …
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Limites e desafios da preservação de conjuntos urbanos modernos no Brasil: Vila Serra Do Navio-AP (1955-2018)
… no Brasil, em plena floresta amazônica, como Company Town da “Indústria e Comércio de Minério S.A” (ICOMI). O complexo de exploração de manganês previu equipamentos industriais, residenciais, administrativos, educacionais, de saúde e de lazer, com projeto moderno do arquiteto Osvaldo Bratke, e …
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Recreation Capital: Natural Resources, Amenity Development, and Outdoor Recreation in Bend, Oregon
… West it functioned largely as a single industry company town, making it an ideal place to consider the production of recreational resources at the end of the 20th century.</p> <p>After introducing the dissertation's goals and exploring the theoretical interventions it makes in chapter one, I …
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"We Came Here for Work": Recollections of Globalisation and Changes to Work in a New Zealand Single Industry Town
… of my field work is in the Single Industry Town of Tokoroa, New Zealand - a town originally founded around the local forestry and pulp and paper industry. I draw on secondary material to present a brief historic overview of the case of Tokoroa. It is one of very few examples of a ‘company …