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9780860916956

Building the Workingman's Paradise The Design of American Company Towns

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  • ISBN13:

    9780860916956

  • ISBN10:

    0860916952

  • Edition: 00
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1996-02-17
  • Publisher: Verso Books
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Summary

This innovative and absorbing book surveys a little known chapter in the story of American urbanism--the history of communities built and owned by companies seeking to bring their workers' homes and place of employment together on a single site.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introductionp. 1
The Industrial Landscape Transformed: 1790-1890
Textile Landscapes: 1790-1850p. 11
The Company Town in an Era of Industrial Expansionp. 29
Welfare Capitalism, Housing Reform, and the Company Townp. 46
Designers and the "New" Company Townp. 61
The Search for a Stylep. 78
Designing the "New" Company Town
Americanizing the Garden City: Grosvenor Atterbury and Indian Hallp. 101
Redesigning the Mining Town: Bertram Goodhue and Tyrone, New Mexicop. 129
Professional Solutions: John Nolen and the Standardization of Company Town Planningp. 152
Regional Alternatives: Earle S. Draper and the Southern Textile Mill Villagep. 174
Conclusion: The End of the Company Townp. 200
Notesp. 213
Indexp. 240
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