Mine Towns Buildings for Workers in Michigan's Copper Country

Name: Mine Towns Buildings for Workers in Michigan's Copper Country
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ISBN: 9780816665679

ISBN-10: 0816665672

ISBN-13: 9780816665679

Edition: 2010

Authors: Alison K. Hoagland

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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 locationand work long hours in dangerous conditionscompanies offered not just competitive wages but also helped provide the very infrastructure of town life in the form of affordable housing, schools, health-care facilities, and churches.The first working-class history of domestic life in Copper Country company towns during the boom years of 1890 to 1918, Alison K. Hoagland'sMine Townsinvestigates how the architecture of a company town revealed the…

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 4/20/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.496



Acknowledgments


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


Notes


Bibliography


Index