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

By: Publication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2010.Description: xxvi, 307 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780816665662 (hc : alk. paper)
  • 9780816665679 (pb : alk. paper)
Other title:
  • Buildings for workers in Michigan's Copper Country
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 728.09774/99 22
LOC classification:
  • NA9053.C57 H63 2010
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.

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.

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