Mine towns : buildings for workers in Michigan's Copper Country / Alison K. Hoagland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoagland, Alison K., 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Company town architecture--Michigan--Keweenaw Peninsula.

Company town architecture.

Architecture, Domestic--Michigan--Keweenaw Peninsula.

Architecture, Domestic.

Architecture and society--Michigan--Keweenaw Peninsula--History--19th century.

Architecture and society.

Architecture and society--Michigan--Keweenaw Peninsula--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Buildings for workers in Michigan's Copper Country

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

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 b

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4661-2

0-8166-7365-9

OCLC:

646816266