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

Contributors

229 contriButors oliver j. dinius is Croft Associate Professor of History and International Studies at the University of Mississippi. His research focuses on the social and economic history of twentieth-century Brazil. Stanford University Press is publishing his book entitled Brazil’s Steel City: Developmentalism, Strategic Power, and Industrial Relations in Volta Redonda, 1941–1964 (Winter 2010). He is currently working on two projects: a book on twentieth-century Brazil as industrial society and a history of the beer industry in the Americas. marshall c. eakin is Professor of History at Vanderbilt University and Executive Director of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA). A specialist in twentieth-century Brazilian history, he is the author of British Enterprise in Brazil : The St. John d’el Rey Mining Company and the Morro Velho Gold Mine, 1830– 1960 (Duke, 1989), Brazil: The Once and Future Country (St. Martin’s, 1997), Tropical Capitalism: The Industrialization of Belo Horizonte, Brazil (Palgrave, 2001), and The History of Latin America: Collision of Cultures (Palgrave, 2007). He has been awarded grants from Fulbright-Hays, the Tinker Foundation, the American Historical Association, the Corporation for National Service, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. elizabeth esch is Assistant Professor of History at Barnard College– Columbia University, where she teaches courses in U.S. imperialism and the history of race. Her work has appeared in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society; Cabinet: A Quarterly Journal of Art and Culture; and Historical Materialism. Her book One Symptom of Originality: Race and the Management of Labor in the United States, coauthored with David R. Roediger, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2012. eugenio garcés feliú is Professor of Architecture at the Facultad de Arquitectura , Diseño y Estudios Urbanos at the Catholic University in Santiago, Chile. He has researched and published on the historical and architectonical aspects of mining towns in Chile. His most important publication is Ciudades del salitre (Editorial Universitaria, 1999). He is currently researching company towns in Tierra del Fuego. 230 • contributors aurora gómez-galvarriato is a professor and researcher at the Department of Economics in the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (cide) in Mexico City. She currently also serves as the director of the Archivo General de la Nación. Her most important publications include El Porfiriato, coauthored with Mauricio Tenorio, and México y España ¿Historias Económicas Paralelas? coedited with Rafael Dobado and Graciela Márquez. She has published numerous articles on the economic and social history of the textile industry in Mexico. Her monograph Industry and Revolution: Social and Economic Changes in the Orizaba Valley, 1890–1930 is forthcoming with Harvard University Press. Her current research focuses on the evolution of prices and wages in Mexico from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. andrew herod is Professor of Geography at the University of Georgia in Athens. He is also an elected official—a member of the government of AthensClarke County, Georgia. He has published widely on the questions of work, space, and globalization. His most important publications include Handbook of Employment and Society: Working Space (Edward Elgar, 2010), coedited with Susan McGrath-Champ and Al Rainnie, Geographies of Globalization: A Critical Introduction (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), Labor Geographies: Workers and the Landscapes of Capitalism (Guilford, 2001), and Organizing the Landscape: Geographical Perspectives on Labor Unionism (University of Minnesota Press, 1998). His next book will be Scale, for the series “Key Ideas in Geography” (Routledge, 2010). laurie mercier is Professor of History at Washington State University, Vancouver . She specializes on U.S. history with a focus on gender and the history of mining. She is the author of Anaconda: Labor, Community and Culture in Montana ’s Smelter City (University of Illinois Press, 2001), the coeditor of Mining Women: Gender in the Development of a Global Industry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), and the coeditor of Speaking History: Oral Histories of the American Past, 1865–Present (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). christopher w. post is Assistant Professor of Geography at Kent State University at Stark in North Canton, Ohio. He has published articles on company towns, exurbanization in the American West, and memorialization of American Civil War–era guerilla violence in journals such as the Journal of Cultural Geography , Geographical Review, Professional Geographer, and Historical Geography. He is currently finishing a book-length manuscript on The Memorialization of contributors • 231 Guerilla Warfare: Tales of Preservation on the Trans-Mississippi...