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Hoagland, Alison K., 1951-

Mine towns : buildings for workers in Michigan's Copper Country / Buildings for workers in Michigan's Copper Country Alison K. Hoagland. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2010. - xxvi, 307 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN: 9780816665662 (hc : alk. paper) 9780816665679 (pb : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2009047051

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Company town architecture--Michigan--Keweenaw Peninsula.
Architecture, Domestic--Michigan--Keweenaw Peninsula.
Architecture and society--History--Michigan--Keweenaw Peninsula--19th century.
Architecture and society--History--Michigan--Keweenaw Peninsula--20th century.

LC Class. No.: NA9053.C57 / H63 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 728.09774/99