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Author Mosher, Anne E., 1959-

Title Capital's Utopia : Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, 1855-1916 / Anne E. Mosher
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 249 pages) : illustrations
Series Creating the North American landscape
Creating the North American landscape.
Contents Experimentation in the Kiskiminetas Valley iron industry -- Apollo's uneasy transition from iron to steel -- The McMurtry, Olmsted, and Eliot plan for Vandergrift -- Settling the Vandergrift Peninsula -- The steel strike of 1901 -- Growing pains for a "model town."
Summary "In the 1890s the Apollo Iron and Steel Company ended a bitterly contested labor dispute by hiring replacement workers from the surrounding countryside. To avoid future unrest, however, the company sought to gain tighter control over its workers not only at the factory but also in their homes. Drawing upon a philosophy of reform movements in Europe and the United States, the firm decided that providing workers with good housing and a good urban environment would make them more loyal and productive. In 1895, Apollo Iron and Steel built a new, integrated, non-unionized steelworks and hired the nation's preeminent landscape architectural firm (Olmsted, Olmsted, and Eliot) to design the model industrial town: Vandergrift."
"In Capital's Utopia Anne E. Mosher offers the first comprehensive geographical overview of the industrial restructuring of an American steelworks and its workforce in the late nineteenth century. By offering a thorough analysis of the Olmsted plan, Mosher integrates historical geography and labor history with landscape architectural history and urban studies. As a result, this book is far more than a case study. It is a window into an important period of industrial development and its consequences on communities and environments in the world-famous steel country of southwestern Pennsylvania."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-240) and index
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Subject Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903.
McMurtry, George Gibson, 1838-1915.
SUBJECT Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903
McMurtry, George Gibson, 1838-1915
McMurtry, George Gibson, 1838-1915. fast (OCoLC)fst00488316
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903. fast (OCoLC)fst00030137
McMurtry, George Gibson, 1838-1915. rasuqam
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903. rasuqam
Subject Iron and steel workers -- Pennsylvania -- Vandergrift -- History
Steel industry and trade -- Social aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Vandergrift -- History
City planning -- Pennsylvania -- Vandergrift -- History
Company towns -- Pennsylvania -- Vandergrift -- History
City planning.
Company towns.
Economic history.
Iron and steel workers.
Social conditions.
Steel industry and trade -- Social aspects.
1850-1899.
1900-1914.
Aménagement urbain.
Cité ouvrière.
Économie.
Histoire.
Industrie sidérurgique.
Société
SUBJECT Vandergrift (Pa.) -- Economic conditions
Vandergrift (Pa.) -- Social conditions
Vandergrift (Pa.) -- History
Subject Pennsylvania -- Vandergrift.
Vandergrift (Penns.)
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2002156774
ISBN 9781421429250
142142925X
1421429241
9781421429243