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Mine towns : buildings for workers in Michigan's Copper Country

text Mine towns : buildings for workers in Michigan's Copper Country

Summary
During the nineteenth century, the Keweenaw Peninsula of Northern Michigan was the site of America's first mineral land rush as companies hastened to profit from the region's vast copper deposits. In order to lure workers to such a remote location... Read more
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" : str... Read more
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xxvi, 307 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press 2010

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