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• Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
• File Size : 25,7 Mb
• Release Date : 01 April 2011

Examines how towns across the United States have grown thanks to the existence of one large business being run from the community, discusses how those single-business communities have influenced the

• Publisher : Macmillan
• File Size : 23,8 Mb
• Release Date : 17 May 2016

2017 Winner of the Sunburst Award Society's Copper Cylinder Adult Award 2017 Canada Reads Finalist 2017 Locus Award Finalist for Science Fiction Novel Category 2017 Sunburst Award Finalist for Adult Fiction 2017 Aurora Awards Finalist

• Publisher : University of Washington Press
• File Size : 45,8 Mb
• Release Date : 01 September 2017

“Company town.” The words evoke images of rough-and-tumble loggers and gritty miners, of dreary shacks in isolated villages, of wages paid in scrip good only at price-gouging company stores of

• Publisher : Yale University Press
• File Size : 20,7 Mb
• Release Date : 26 August 2014

"The notorious Soviet Gulag gets a radical reinterpretation in this remarkable work of cutting-edge history. By examining the history of Vorkuta, an Arctic coal-mining outpost established in the 1930s as

• Publisher : Icon Books
• File Size : 37,7 Mb
• Release Date : 04 October 2012

A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Douglas A. Blackmon brings to

• Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
• File Size : 42,7 Mb
• Release Date : 21 February 2018

In Chocolate We Trust takes readers inside modern-day Hershey, Pennsylvania, headquarters of the iconic Hershey brand. A destination for chocolate enthusiasts since the early 1900s, Hershey has transformed from a

• Publisher : Verso
• File Size : 37,7 Mb
• Release Date : 09 June 1995

This innovative and absorbing book surveys a little known chapter in the story of American urbanism—the history of communities built and owned by single companies seeking to bring their

• Publisher : Norman, University of Oklahoma Press
• File Size : 49,8 Mb
• Release Date : 09 June 1966

• Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• File Size : 43,7 Mb
• Release Date : 25 October 2016

Clusters, technopoles, milieus of innovation, science parks, company towns, corporate campuses and all other silicon-"things" are based on one simple idea - the idea of agglomeration effects. The core

• Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
• File Size : 55,7 Mb
• Release Date : 09 June 1978