Morgan Park : Duluth, U.S. Steel, and the forging of a company town /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Alanen, Arnold R. (Arnold Robert)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
United States Steel Corporation > History.
United States Steel Corporation
Company towns > Minnesota > Duluth > History.
City planning > Minnesota > Duluth > History.
Steel industry and trade > Minnesota > Duluth > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
City planning
Company towns
Steel industry and trade
Minnesota > Duluth
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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