| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 307 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 conditions--companies 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, A |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Company town architecture -- Michigan -- Keweenaw Peninsula
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Architecture, Domestic -- Michigan -- Keweenaw Peninsula
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Architecture and society -- Michigan -- Keweenaw Peninsula -- History -- 19th century
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Architecture and society -- Michigan -- Keweenaw Peninsula -- History -- 20th century
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ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Residential.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
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Architecture and society
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Architecture, Domestic
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Company town architecture
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Michigan -- Keweenaw Peninsula
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780816673650 |
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0816673659 |
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1452946612 |
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9781452946610 |
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