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Mine Towns : Buildings for Workers in Michigan's Copper Country /

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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Autor principal: Hoagland, Alison K., 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
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505 0 |a 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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