Company Towns

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ID19934256
AuthorsKatharine Rollwagen (Research Canada, corresponding author), M Borges (0000-0002-6401-1513), S Torres (0009-0000-1951-1546)
EditorsMarcelo J Borges (0000-0003-4176-2477), Susana B Torres
Year2012
Publication date2012-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueCompany Towns (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9781137024671
OpenAlexW2571290384
Open LibraryOL27966868M
ISBN9781137024671
LanguageEN
Citations received12

Britannia Beach is not a ghost town today, but between 1957 and 1965 residents and employees of the former company-owned copper mining town, located 48 km north of Vancouver, British Columbia, had good reasons to believe it would become one. The town faced two major crises in less than a decade, triggering mine shutdowns that threw the future of the town into question. How did two shutdowns within a decade and affecting the same company town prompt such different reactions? This article explores the extent to which employees’ notions of community were, in historian Steven High’s words, a “sufficiently empowering myth,” capable of mobilizing Britannia’s workforce to resist the mine closures when ghosts hovered over the town

Archaeology · Capital (architecture) · Economic geography · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Feature (linguistics) · Frontier · Geography · Industrial Revolution · Political science · History · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

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