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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.

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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. John Porter, Canadian Historical Review A deeply personal, strangely prescient exploration of how one achieves privacy and security in a social environment structured for surveillance. Lorne Tepperman, professor of sociology, University of Toronto I grew up in the bush and a single-industry town. Those roots were refreshed [by] Minetown, Milltown, Railtown... It gave me the feel and a better understanding of life in such communities. Douglas Fisher, journalist and author

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Rex A. Lucas taught sociology at the University of Toronto during the 1960s and '70s. Apart from Minetown, his books included Men in Crisis: A Study of a Mine Disaster and (as editor with H.D. Beach) Individual and Group Behaviour in a Coal Mine Disaster. He died in 1978. Lorne Tepperman teaches at the University of Toronto and is the author or co-author of dozens of books and research studies. He has served as president of the Canadian Sociological Association and also received the Association's Outstanding Contributions Award for his work in the field.

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