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  • Minetown, Milltown, Railtown: Life in Canadian Communities of Single Industry

    Minetown, Milltown, Railtown by Lucas, Rex; Tepperman, Lorne;

    Life in Canadian Communities of Single Industry

    Series: Wynford Books;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher OUP Canada
    • Date of Publication 10 April 2008

    • ISBN 9780195428872
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages448 pages
    • Size 204x133x29 mm
    • Weight 488 g
    • Language English
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    The company town, source of so much of Canada's wealth, was - and is - a place with nowhere to hide. First published in 1971, Rex Lucas's Minetown, Milltown, Railtown is a groundbreaking study of what it's like to live in such communities. Today, with the oil-sands boom and rising commodity prices affecting everything from the value of the Canadian dollar to the balance of power within Confederation, single-industry towns remain as central as ever to the
    country's economic and social life. Minetown is a compelling portrait not just of Canada's past, but of its present and future, too.

    Minetown, Milltown, Railtown: Life in Canadian Communities of Single Industry is a Wynford Book-one of a series of titles representing significant milestones in Canadian literature, thought, and scholarship. New introductions place each book in a modern context and show its continuing relevance.

    A sad picture of the social cost of Canadas development. . . . Here is a challenge to Canadian social policy, and to those Canadians who get so exercised about conditions and events elsewhere: how to make the single industry community, so essential to our standard of living, livable places for those whom we ask to spend their lives there.

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