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Oysters, Macaroni, and Beer: Thurber, Texas, and the Company Store: Plains Histories

Autor Gene Rhea Tucker Cuvânt înainte de Richard Francaviglia
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 oct 2012 – vârsta ani
From 1894 to 1934, a span of forty years that saw its parent company go from coal mining to oil drilling, the Texas Pacific Mercantile and Manufacturing Company operated and managed the various commercial and service enterprises essential to the life and history of Thurber, Texas. Thurber was a company town, wholly owned by the Texas and Pacific Coal Company, and the inhabitants viewed the “company store” with suspicion before and after unionization in 1903, believing it monopolistic and exploitative. But to call the mercantile a monopoly, or a mere contrivance to exploit laborers, paints an incomplete portrait of the company store as it existed in Thurber and elsewhere. With a keen eye for spotting telling detail, Gene Rhea Tucker examines a wealth of company ledgers, interviews, and newspaper accounts, presenting a case study not only of the microcosm of Thurber and TPM&M but of relations between labor and management in industrializing Texas, and a larger story of the complex role of the company store and company town in America.
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ISBN-13: 9780896727687
ISBN-10: 0896727688
Pagini: 216
Ilustrații: 39
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Texas Tech University Press
Colecția Texas Tech University Press
Seria Plains Histories


Notă biografică

Gene Rhea Tucker, originally from Killeen, Texas, earned his BA and MA degrees in history from Tarleton State University and the PhD in Translatoratlantic history from the University of Texas at Arlington. While at Tarleton he was a graduate assistant at the W. K. Gordon Center for Industrial History of Texas, a museum documenting the boomtown-turned-ghost town of Thurber. He is a professor at various institutions in Texas.Richard Francaviglia, professor emeritus of history at The University of Texas at Arlington, is the author of numerous books no American history, including Hard Places: Reading the Landscape of America's Historic Mining Districts.

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A thoroughgoing analysis of the labor history and culture of an American company town.