Main entry:

Crawford, Margaret, 1948- author.

Title & Author:

Building the workingman's paradise : the design of American company towns / Margaret Crawford.

Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, 1995.

Description:

viii, 248 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Series:

Haymarket series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-239) and index.
pt. 1: The industrial landscape transformed: 1790-1890. Textile landscapes: 1790-1850. The company town in an era of industrial expansion. Welfare capitalism, housing reform, and the company town. Designers and the "New" company town. The search for a style -- pt. 2: Designing the "new" company town. Americanizing the garden city: Grosvenor Atterbury and Indian Hill. Redesigning the mining town: Bertram Goodhue and Tyrone, New Mexico. Professional solutions: John Nolen and the standardization of company town planning. Regional alternatives: Earle S. Draper and the southern textile mill village -- Conclusion: The end of the company town.

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.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0860914216
9780860914211
0860916952 (pbk.)
9780860916956 (pbk.)

Subject:

Company towns United States History.
Industries United States History.
Industrial relations United States History.
Villes fermées États-Unis Histoire.
Industrie États-Unis Histoire.
Relations industrielles États-Unis Histoire.
Company towns.
Industrial relations.
Industries.
Gartenstadt
Industrieregion
Stadtplanung
Städtebau
Arbeitersiedlung
Stedenbouw.
Tuinsteden.
Volksbuurten.
United States.
Nordamerika
USA
Towns History

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Haymarket series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 91901
Call No.: ID HT123.C7; ID:95-B652
Status: Available