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Morgan Park : Duluth, U.S. Steel, and the Forging of a Company Town /

From 1915 to 1971 the large U.S. Steel plant was a major part of Duluth's landscape and life. Just as important was Morgan Park's innovatively planned and close-knit community constructed for the plant's employees and their families. In this book Arnold R. Alanen presents vivid portra...

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Autor principal: Alanen, Arnold R. (Arnold Robert)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction: Model company towns in America, 1800-1914 -- The economics and politics of iron ore and big steel -- Building a steel plant : recession, indecision, and war -- Neighborhood housing from Gary to Oliver -- The emergence of a model company town -- Stability and prosperity for U.S. steel -- The complete company town -- Engineering the good life -- Struggling for work during the 1930s -- Getting by and making do -- More steel for another war -- No more company housing -- Six strikes to shutdown -- Preserving the model town. 
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