Mine towns : buildings for workers in Michigan's Copper Country /

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During the nineteenth century, the Keweenaw Peninsula of Northern Michigan was the site of America's first mineral land rush as companies hastened to profit from the region's vast copper deposits. In order to lure workers to such a remote location--and work long hours in dangerous conditio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hoagland, Alison K., 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2010.
Temas:
1800-1999
Company town architecture > Michigan > Keweenaw Peninsula.
Architecture, Domestic > Michigan > Keweenaw Peninsula.
Architecture and society > Michigan > Keweenaw Peninsula > History > 19th century.
Architecture and society > Michigan > Keweenaw Peninsula > History > 20th century.
Architecture et société > Michigan > Keweenaw, Péninsule de > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Architecture et société > Michigan > Keweenaw, Péninsule de > Histoire > 20e siècle.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Residential.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Architecture and society
Architecture, Domestic
Company town architecture
Michigan > Keweenaw Peninsula
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Negotiating paternalism in the Copper Country
  • Saltboxes and T-plans : creating and inhabiting the company house
  • The spaces of a strike : company buildings and landscapes in a time of conflict
  • "Home for the working man" : strategies for homeownership
  • Acquiring conveniences : water, heat, and light
  • Churches, schools, bathhouses : building community on company land
  • Preservation and loss : remembering through buildings.

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