Main entry:

Hoagland, Alison K., 1951-

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2010]
©2010.

Description:

xxvi, 307 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-295) and index.
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.
A 2011 Michigan Notable Books selection

Summary:

"The first working-class history of domestic life in Copper Country company towns during the boom years of 1890 to 1918, Alison K. Hoagland's Mine Towns investigates how the architecture of a company town revealed the paternal relationship that existed between company managers and workers. The story of Joseph and Antonia Putrich, immigrants from Croatia, punctuates and illustrates the realities of life in a booming company town. While company managers provided housing as a way to develop and control a stable workforce, workers often rejected this domestic ideal and used homes as an economic resource, taking in boarders to help generate further income. Focusing on how the exchange between company managers and a largely immigrant workforce took the form of negotiation rather than a top-down system, Hoagland examines surviving buildings and uses Copper Country's built environment to map this remarkable connection between a company and its workers at the height of Michigan's largest land rush"-- back cover.

ISBN:

9780816665662 (hc ; alk. paper)
0816665664 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780816665679 (pb ; alk. paper)
0816665672 (pb ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Company town architecture Michigan Keweenaw Peninsula.
Architecture, Domestic Michigan Keweenaw Peninsula.
Architecture and society Michigan Keweenaw Peninsula History 19th century.
Architecture and society Michigan Keweenaw Peninsula History 20th century.
Architecture et société Michigan Keweenaw, Péninsule de Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture et société Michigan Keweenaw, Péninsule de Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture and society.
Architecture, Domestic.
Company town architecture.
Michigan Keweenaw Peninsula.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 266991
Call No.: BIB 199038
Status: Available