Capital's Utopia : Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, 1855-1916

Capital's Utopia Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, 1855-1916

In the 1890s the Apollo Iron and Steel Company ended a bitterly contested labor dispute by hiring replacement workers from the surrounding countryside. To avoid future unrest, however, the company sought to gain tighter control over its workers not only at the factory but also in their homes. Drawin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mosher, Anne E., 1959- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press 2004
2004.
Materias:
Olmsted, Frederick Law, > 1822-1903.
McMurtry, George Gibson, > 1838-1915.
Iron and steel workers > Pennsylvania > Vandergrift > History.
Steel industry and trade > Social aspects > Pennsylvania > Vandergrift > History.
City planning > Pennsylvania > Vandergrift > History.
Company towns > Pennsylvania > Vandergrift > History.
Vandergrift (Pa.) > Economic conditions.
Vandergrift (Pa.) > Social conditions.
Vandergrift (Pa.) > History.
City & town planning: architectural aspects
Electronic books.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009429945806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Experimentation in the Kiskiminetas Valley iron industry
  • Apollo's uneasy transition from iron to steel
  • The McMurtry, Olmsted, and Eliot plan for Vandergrift
  • Settling the Vandergrift Peninsula
  • The steel strike of 1901
  • Growing pains for a "model town".

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