Volta Redonda is a Brazilian steel town founded in the 1940s by dictator Getúlio Vargas on an ex-coffee valley as a powerful symbol of Brazilian modernization.

Brazil's Steel City presents a social history of the National Steel Company (CSN), Brazil's foremost state-owned company and largest industrial enterprise in th

Study of the industrial development of the iron and steel industry in Brazil - discusses the historical background of the economic structure, the use of technol

Steel Town Adivasis: Industry and Inequality in Eastern India presents an analysis of class formation in the industrial town, Rourkela in the eastern Indian sta

Company towns were the spatial manifestation of a social ideology and an economic rationale. The contributors to this volume show how national politics, social