Company Towns in the Americas: Landscape, Power, and Working-Class Communities

Contents

contents List of Illustrations vii Foreword. marshall c. eakin ix Acknowledgments xiii “Company Towns in the Americas: An Introduction.” oliver j. dinius and angela vergara 1 chapter 1 “Social Engineering through Spatial Engineering: Company Towns and the Geographical Imagination.” andrew herod 21 chapter 2 “From Company Towns to Union Towns: Textile Workers and the Revolutionary State in Mexico.” aurora gómez-galvarriato 45 chapter 3 “The Port and the City of Santos: A Century-Long Duality.” fernando teixeira da silva 68 chapter 4 “Whitened and Enlightened: The Ford Motor Company and Racial Engineering in the Brazilian Amazon.” elizabeth esch 91 chapter 5 “The Making of a Federal Company Town: Sunflower Village, Kansas.” christopher w. post 111 chapter 6 “Glory Days No More: Catholic Paternalism and Labor Relations in Brazil’s Steel City.” oliver j. dinius 134 chapter 7 “Borders, Gender, and Labor: Canadian and U.S. Mining Towns during the Cold War Era.” laurie mercier 158 vi • contents chapter 8 “El Salvador: A Modern Company Town in the Chilean Andes.” eugenio garcés feliú and angela vergara 178 chapter 9 “Labor and Community in Postwar Argentina: The Industry of Agricultural Machinery in Firmat, Santa Fe.” silvia simonassi 198 Selected Bibliography on Company Towns in the Americas 221 Contributors 229 Index 233 ...