Mine towns
Subtitle: buildings for workers in Michigan's Copper Country
By: Alison K. Hoagland.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780816665662; 9780816665679
Subjects: 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
Other titles: Buildings for workers in Michigan's Copper Country
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Negotiating paternalism in the Copper Country; title: Saltboxes and T-plans : creating and inhabiting the company house; title: The spaces of a strike : company buildings and landscapes in a time of conflict; title: "Home for the working man" : strategies for homeownership; title: Acquiring conveniences : water, heat, and light; title: Churches, schools, bathhouses : building community on company land; title: Preservation and loss : remembering through buildings.