Introduction: Model Company Towns in America, 1800-1914 | p. 1 |
A Steel Plant and a Company Town, 1907-1915 | |
The Economics and Politics of Iron Ore and Big Steel | p. 21 |
Building a Steel Plant: Recession, Indecision, and War | p. 33 |
Neighborhood Housing from Gary to Oliver | p. 56 |
The Emergence of a Model Company Town | p. 71 |
Working and Living in Morgan Park, 1916-1929 | |
Stability and Prosperity for U.S. Steel | p. 109 |
The Complete Company Town | p. 137 |
Engineering the Good Life | p. 182 |
From Despair to Prosperity, 1930-1945 | |
Struggling for Work during the 1930s | p. 219 |
Getting By and Making Do | p. 231 |
More Steel for Another War | p. 240 |
No More Company Housing | p. 254 |
Closing a Steel Plant but Preserving a Community, 1946-2006 | |
Six Strikes to Shutdown | p. 263 |
Preserving the Model Town | p. 278 |
Notes | p. 299 |
Index | p. 327 |
Photographs of Morgan Park by Chris Faust follow page 174 | |
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