Morgan Park : Duluth, U.S. Steel, and the forging of a company town / Arnold R. Alanen ; with photographs by Chris Faust.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alanen, Arnold R. (Arnold Robert)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Company towns--Minnesota--Duluth--History.

Company towns.

City planning--Minnesota--Duluth--History.

City planning.

Steel industry and trade--Minnesota--Duluth--History.

Steel industry and trade.

United States Steel Corporation--History.

United States Steel Corporation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

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,

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction : Model company towns in America, 1800-1914

[pt]. 1. A steel plant and a company town, 1907-1915

1. The economics and politics of iron ore and big steel

2. Building a steel plant : recession, indecision, and war

3. Neighborhood housing from Gary to Oliver

4. The emergence of a model company town

[pt]. 2. Working and living in Morgan Park, 1916-1029

5. Stability and prosperity for U.S. steel

6. The complete company town

7. Engineering the good life

[pt]. 3. From despair to prosperity, 1930-1945

8. Struggling for work during the 1930's

9. Getting by and making do

10. More steel for another war

11. No more company housing

[pt]. 4. Closing a steel plant but preserving a community, 1946-2006

12. Six strikes to shutdown

13. Preserving the model town

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-5372-0

OCLC:

476156601