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Author Alanen, Arnold R. (Arnold Robert)

Title Morgan Park : Duluth, U.S. Steel, and the forging of a company town / Arnold R. Alanen ; with photographs by Chris Faust
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 338 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
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
Summary 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 portraits of Morgan Park, the formerly company-controlled town that now stands as a city neighborhood, and the U.S. Steel plant for which it was built. Planned by renowned landscape architects, architects, and engineers,
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-326) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject United States Steel Corporation -- History
SUBJECT United States Steel Corporation fast
Subject 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
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816653720
0816653720