Minetown, Milltown, Railtown: Life in Canadian communities of single industry

Rex Lucas

Published by University of Toronto Press 1971

Minetown, Milltown, Railtown

Life in Canadian communities of single industry

Rex Lucas

In the series Heritage

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487576356

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About this book

Minetown, Milltown, Railtown explores deeply and broadly the links between economic resources, industrial structure, and social patterns in Canada. It is a study of the six hundred or so communities from coast to coast, each of which was created and is dominated by a single Industrial firm.

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Lucas Rex :

REX A. LUCAS studied at McGill and Columbia universities, and is now Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. He has contributed articles to several learned journals, is author of Men in Crisis: A Study of a Mine Disaster and (with Catherine D. McLean) Nurses Come Lately, and editor (with H.D. Beach) of Individual and Group Behaviour in a Coal Mine Disaster.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
1. The community of single industry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Stage I Construction of the community Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
3. Stage II The recruitment of citizens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
4. Stage Ill Transition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
5. Stage IV Maturity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
6. The organization of work Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
7. Occupation, stratification and association Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
8. Interpersonal relationships Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
9. Recreation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
10. Goods and services Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
11. Healing arts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
12. The school Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
13. Churches Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
14. Social conflict and social control Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
15. Marriage and migration of youth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	353
16. Some social implications Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389
Notes on data and sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	409
Name index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
Subject index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	419

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Copyright year: 1971
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 448

eBook

Published: December 15, 1971
ISBN: 9781487576356