Michigan's lumbertowns
Subtitle: lumbermen and laborers in Saginaw, Bay City, and Muskegon, 1870-1905
By: Jeremy W. Kilar.
Series: Great Lakes books
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
Subjects: Lumber trade -- Michigan -- History.; Industries -- Michigan -- History.; Saginaw (Mich.) -- Economic conditions.; Bay City (Mich.) -- Economic conditions.; Muskegon (Mich.) -- Economic conditions.
Description: Introduction: This book examines the interaction of three communities' social, cultural, and economic institutions and assesses the effect on peoples' lives. Community experience defines the entrepreneurial character of the lumbertowns' sawdust barons as well as the character of the laboring mill men. This experience explains how the forces for progress induced changes that presaged the socioeconomic future of each lumbertown.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-353) and index.