Oysters, Macaroni and Beer - Thurber, Texas and the Company Store (Hardcover, New)

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 unionisation in 1903, believing it monopolistic and exploitative. But to call the mercantile a monopoly, or a mere contrivance to exploit labourers, 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 labour and management in industrialising Texas, and a larger story of the complex role of the company store and company town in America.

General

Imprint:	Texas Tech Press,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Plains Histories
Release date:	September 2012
First published:	October 2012
Authors:	Gene Rhea Tucker
Foreword by:	Richard Francaviglia
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	216
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-89672-768-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > Central government policies Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Industrial relations & safety > Industrial relations > General Books > History > American history > General Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General Promotions
LSN:	0-89672-768-8
Barcode:	9780896727687

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