Hope in hard times : Norvelt and the struggle for community during the great depression / Timothy Kelly, Margaret Power, Michael Cary.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelly, Timothy, 1960- author.

Power, Margaret, 1953- author.

Cary, Michael D., 1950- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New Deal, 1933-1939--Pennsylvania--Norvelt.

New Deal, 1933-1939.

Depressions--1929--Pennsylvania--Westmoreland County.

Depressions.

Planned communities--Pennsylvania--Norvelt--History.

Planned communities.

Norvelt (Pa.)--History.

Norvelt (Pa.).

Norvelt (Pa.)--Social conditions--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 262 pages :) illustrations, maps ;

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Explores the history of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, originally known as Westmoreland Homesteads, which was founded in 1934 as part of the New Deal homestead subsistence program"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The world of coal mining, coking, and patch communities in southwestern Pennsylvania, 1880-1920

The crisis : the Great Depression in the nation and Westmoreland County

The response : the New Deal and the subsistence homestead program

The great experiment : the cooperative ethos and community building

Challenges to the cooperative ethos

Becoming Norvelt : the triumph of the middle way

Living in Norvelt : domestic architecture

Norvelt today : the evolution of a new deal community

Conclusion : did Norvelt succeed?.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-244) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780271078069

0271078065

OCLC:

951678547